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1.582 ! grunk 19: <h2>January, 2009</h2>
! 20: <ul>
! 21: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
! 22: [GERMAN]
! 23: <a href="http://chaosradio.ccc.de/cre105.html">
! 24: OpenBSD -- Technik und Entwicklerkultur des alternativen Betriebssystems
! 25: </a>, Chaosradio Express, January 28, 2009</strong></font><br>
! 26: OpenBSD developer Felix Kronlage (fkr@openbsd.org) in interview
! 27: with Chaosradio Express host Tim Pritlove from the Chaos Computer Club.
! 28: <p>
! 29: </ul>
! 30:
1.581 ian 31: <h2>April, 2008</h2>
32: <ul>
33:
34: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
35: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story/19700/OpenBSD_4.3_Released">
36: OpenBSD 4.3 Released</a>, OSNews, April 30, 2008
37: </strong></font><br>
38: OSNews is among the first to mention the newest release:
39: "Theo de Raadt has lifted the veil off OpenBSD 4.3. <i>We are pleased
40: to announce the official release of OpenBSD 4.3. This is our 23nd
41: release on CD-ROM (and 24rd via FTP). We remain proud of OpenBSD's
42: record of more than ten years with only two remote holes in the
43: default install.</i> Boasting as always, but when it's justified,
44: arrogance is a virtue."
45: <p>
46:
47: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
48: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2008/04/29/puffy-and-the-crytonauts-whats-new-in-openbsd-43.html">
49: Puffy and the Cryptonauts: What's New in OpenBSD 4.3</a>, onLamp, April 29, 2008
50: </strong></font><br>
51: Federico Biancuzzi interviewed several OpenBSD developers
52: about the changes in the 4.3 release, providing a more comprehensive overview
53: than others.
54: Topics range across
55: networking (including new and improved drivers, and our own SNMP implementation),
56: storage (faster flash, bigger disk support),
57: platforms (Sparc64 SMP, audio drivers),
58: kernel improvements, malloc support, read/write cleanups, and much more.
59: <p>
60:
61: </ul>
62:
1.573 ian 63: <h2>November, 2007</h2>
64: <ul>
65: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.574 ian 66: <a href="http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/87">
67: Using OpenBSD 4.2</a>, Software In Review, November 5, 2007
68: </strong></font><br>
69: Jem Matzem advocates using OpenBSD and shows readers how to get
70: started and some hints on using the system after it's installed,
71: including setting up ports/packages to use third-party software.
72: Under the "For More Information" category, he acknowledges that
73: "OpenBSD has the most thorough, easy to follow native documentation
74: of any Unix-like operating system..."
75: <p>
76:
77: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
78: <a href="http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/11/a_few_cheers_fo.html">
79: A Few Cheers For OpenBSD</a>, Information Week, November 2, 2007
80: </strong></font><br>
81: "With all of the hollering about Linux..., there's another open-source
82: operating system that just celebrated getting a new 4.2 release out
83: the door. It's one that hasn't been quite as widely-celebrated as
84: Linux but is still deeply important in its own way: OpenBSD"
85: Talks about how BSD is real UNIX, and what that means, and our
86: security policy "secure by default".
87: Ends with a reminder that Linux is
88: "not the only open-source, Unix-like game in town."
89: <p>
90:
91: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.573 ian 92: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/7155">
93: Puffy's Marathon: What's New in OpenBSD 4.2</a>, onLamp, Nov 1, 2007
94: </strong></font><br>
95: Federico Biancuzzi interviewed almost two dozen OpenBSD developers
96: and combined their comments into this interview. Opens with:
97: "...this release comes with some amazing performance improvements: basic
98: benchmarks showed PF being twice as fast, a rewrite of the TLB
99: shootdown code for i386 and amd64 cut the time to do a full package
100: build by 20 percent (mostly because all the forks in configure
101: scripts have become much cheaper), and the improved frequency scaling
102: on MP systems can help save nearly 20 percent of battery power.
103: <p>
104: "And then the new features: FFS2, support for the Advanced Host
105: Controller Interface, IP balancing in CARP, layer 7 manipulation
106: with hoststated, Xenocara, and more!"
107: <p>
108: And goes on to discuss each of these and more with the good folk
109: who make it happen.
110: <p>
111:
112: </ul>
113:
1.572 ian 114: <h2>July, 2007</h2>
115: <ul>
116: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
117: <a href="http://geektechnique.org/projectlab/797/openbsd-encrypted-nas-howto">
1.578 ian 118: OpenBSD Encrypted NAS How-To</a>, geektechnique.org, July 15, 2007
1.572 ian 119: </strong></font><br>
120: Mark Hoekstra gives a detailed step-by-step description of how to
121: build an encrypted
122: network storage box using off-the-shelf hardware and OpenBSD software.
123: <br>
124: Also reported in
125: <a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/07/07/16/002203.shtml">SlashDot
126: </a> and
127: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/news.php?id=14877">net-security</a>.
128: <p>
129:
130: </ul>
131:
1.569 ian 132: <h2>May, 2007</h2>
133: <ul>
134:
135: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.570 simon 136: [GERMAN]
137: OpenBSD 4.1 bietet Lastverteilung auf Layer 7,
138: iX magazine, May 18, 2007
139: </strong></font><br>
140: The German IT magazine iX reviews the new hoststated(8) Host Status Daemon that
141: comes with OpenBSD 4.1. The article describes various configurations including
142: SSL acceleration and gives a good insight into what hoststated(8) can do for the
143: reader.
144: <p>
145:
146: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.569 ian 147: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2007/05/03/openbsd-41-puffy-strikes-again.html">
148: OpenBSD 4.1: Puffy Strikes Again</a>, ONLamp, May 5, 2007
149: </strong></font><br>
150: Federico Biancuzzi interviewed a number of developers about the major
151: changes in 4.1: Mark Kettenis on UltraSPARC III and UltraSPARC T1;
152: Otto Moerbeek on the landisk port and fsck_ffs;
153: Artur Grabowski on rthreads and AMD64 timekeeping;
154: Kurt Miller on pthreads and, with Robert Nagy, on OpenOffice;
155: Marc Espie on the changes "under the hood" in
156: the package tools and on the new pkg_config;
157: Matthieu Herrb on our new X11 build system xenocara,
1.575 tobias 158: Henning Brauer on syslogd, hoststated and RSTP;
1.569 ian 159: Henning and Claudio Jeker on a variety of topics in routing and PF;
160: Bob Beck on spam fighting;
161: and Jonathan Gray on WEP and on why authpf is better than WPA/WPA2.
162: Quite readable overview of some of the main issues in this release.
1.582 ! grunk 163: <br>
! 164: Linked to from
1.569 ian 165: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php/17851/OpenBSD-4.1-Puffy-Strikes-Again/">OSNews</a>.
166: Mentions of the release also appeared in
167: <a href="http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1483">Tectonic</a>,
168: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/newsvac/07/05/02/1320248.shtml">Newsforge</a>
169: and
170: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/07/05/01/2231229.shtml">SlashDot</a>
171: (the latter two include pointers to official release announcements).
172: <p>
173:
174: </ul>
175:
1.565 ian 176: <h2>April, 2007</h2>
177: <ul>
178:
179: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
180: <a href="http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/03/28/1522252">
181: Reducing spam with OpenBSD and spamd</a>, Linux.com, April 11, 2007
182: </strong></font><br>
183: This is the first installment of a multi-part article on using OpenBSD's
184: anti-spam tools. This part contains a general overview of spamd, greylisting
185: and tarpitting. Later installments will cover the how-to details.
186: <p>
187:
188:
189: </ul>
190:
1.560 ian 191: <h2>March, 2007</h2>
192: <ul>
193:
194: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.564 ian 195: <a href="http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2007/03/bsdtalk105-intro-to-pf-with-jason-dixon.html">
196: Introduction to PF with Jason Dixon</a>, BSDTalk 105, March 26, 2007
197: </strong></font><br>
198: Jason provides a nice general overview of OpenBSD's Packet Filter PF,
199: emphasizing the "why" rather than the "how" of using PF.
200: Goes over pf's history, initial setup, stateful filtering,
201: normalization with "scrub", use of synproxy, authpf,
202: CARP and pfsync, GUI configurations vs config files, the pfsense project,
1.576 martynas 203: logging, transparent bridges, AltQ queuing, macros, lists and tables,
1.579 ian 204: and the tie-in to spamd.
1.564 ian 205: <p>
206:
207: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.582 ! grunk 208: <a href="http://www.sourcewire.com/releases/rel_display.php?relid=30120&hilite=">
1.560 ian 209: Welsh Government Agency demonstrates Open Source best practice</a>,
210: SourceWire, March 8, 2007
211: </strong></font><br>
1.562 ian 212: The Countryside Council for Wales, the UK Government's regional wildlife
213: conservation authority for Wales, has hired UK Open Source service provider Sirius
1.561 saad 214: Corporation to extend OpenBSD's interoperability with the proprietary
215: Cisco IOS software; part of the agreement calls for Sirius to contribute
216: its source changes back to the OpenBSD project.
1.560 ian 217: <p>
218:
219: </ul>
1.558 ian 220:
1.556 matthieu 221: <h2>February, 2007</h2>
222: <ul>
223:
224: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.558 ian 225: <a href="http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/security/is_symantecs_vista_security_assessment_credible.html">
226: Is Symantec's Vista Security Assessment Credible?</a>, Microsoft Watch, February 28, 2007
227: </strong></font><br>
228: This paper is nominally about the relationship between Symantec and Microsoft,
229: talking about a white paper released by the former.
230: But it's quite revealing about Microsoft itself.
231: "Even Microsoft... now acknowledges that UAC (User Account Control) -
232: Vista's most [high-]profile security feature - is vulnerable to subversion,
233: particularly through social-engineering tactics."
234: And while the Symantec report says some good things about Vista security,
235: "its criticisms are brutal - for their clarity and foreboding:
236: <blockquote>
237: "Many of the technologies that Microsoft has employed to bolster
238: the security of Windows Vista are not new. In fact, most are
239: derived from the groundwork originally laid by open-source
240: operating systems such as Linux and OpenBSD, the PaX and
241: Stackguard projects, as well as numerous academic publications....
242: The majority of these technologies first appeared in Windows
243: XP SP2 [Service Pack 2]. Windows XP SP2, at the time of its
244: release, was also billed as the most secure version of Windows."
245: </blockquote>
246: So remember, folks, if it's about security, you may well have heard it
247: here first, long before Microsoft "invented" it.
248: <p>
249:
250:
251: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.557 reyk 252: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/85495">
253: OpenBSD und Linux: Kritik an Stillhalteabkommen für Treiberentwicklung</a>, heise online, February 2, 2007
254: </strong></font><br>
255:
256: Short article about OpenBSD's clear statement against device driver
257: development under non-disclosure agreement (NDA).
258: It attempts to summarize the reaction of the OpenBSD community against the
259: <a href="http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/free_drivers.html">"Free Linux Driver Development"</a>
260: under NDA offered by the linux developer Greg Kroah-Hartman which previously raised some
261: discussion.
262: Code written under NDA will make it difficult to improve it in the future
263: because somebody signed an agreement to keep the required hardware
264: documentation secret. For the OpenBSD project
265: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/goals.html">NDAs are never acceptable</a>.
266: <p>
267:
268: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.556 matthieu 269: [FRENCH]
270: <a href="http://www.ed-diamond.com/produit.php?produit=462">GNU/Linux
271: Magazine France</a> special issue number 29
272: </strong></font>
273: is dedicated to BSD systems. It features several articles about
274: OpenBSD: a pf tutorial, an article on IPSec and two articles on
275: high-availability with pf and CARP and with dynamic routing protocols
276: using OpenOSPFd and OpenBGPd.
277: <p>
278:
279: </ul>
280:
1.558 ian 281: <h2>January, 2007</h2>
282: <ul>
283: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
284: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2007/01/18/greylisting-with-pf.html">
285: Greylisting with PF</a>, O'Reilly onLAMP, January 18, 2007
286: </strong></font><br>
287: This onLAMP article by Dan Langille leads you through the process of
1.559 ian 288: setting up greylisting using OpenBSD's pf and spamd, which has now been ported
1.558 ian 289: to most other BSD systems. The article is
290: quite detailed, but readers should ignore the FreeBSD-specific stuff
291: like kldload (OpenBSD uses modload, but, OpenBSD always has pf built-in
292: so you don't need this). Parts of the article are based on Bob Beck's
293: <a href="http://www.nycbsdcon.org/speakers#Beck">spamd talk at NYCBSDCon</a>.
294: <p>
295:
296: </ul>
297:
1.550 mbalmer 298: <h2>December, 2006</h2>
299: <ul>
300:
301: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.554 reyk 302: [GERMAN]
303: <a href="http://www.freie-radios.net/portal/content.php?id=15206">
304: 23C3: Interview mit Henning und Reyk von OpenBSD</a>,
305: Radio Unerhört Marbug, December 29, 2006
306: </strong></font><br>
307: Interview with Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter about OpenBSD and
308: the latest changes since 4.0 during the 23rd Chaos Communications
309: Congress in Berlin.
310: <p>
311:
312: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.552 ian 313: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/12/29/01OPsecadvise_1.html">
1.553 ian 314: New Year's Resolution No. 1: Get OpenBSD</a>,
1.552 ian 315: InfoWorld, December 29, 2006
316: </strong></font><br>
317: InfoWorld's Security Advisor columnist Roger A. Grimes says:
318: "Kick off 2007 with a new, more secure operating system."
319: Citing OpenBSD's code-auditing security process and its
320: excellent security record, Grimes advises readers to give the system a try.
321: Despite repeating some old canards about the "unfriendly" install, he
322: notes favorably that
323: "OpenBSD is shipped secure-by-default, with all non-essential services disabled.
324: You won't find NFS, mountd, or Apache [httpd] enabled by default.
325: The /bin and /sbin folders will be emptier than other Linux or BSD distros.
326: Install OpenBSD and you can be assured that it doesn't default to an insecure state."
327: <p>
328:
329: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.551 xsa 330: [GERMAN]
1.550 mbalmer 331: <a href="http://www.heise.de/ix/artikel/2007/01/074/">
332: OpenBSD 4.0 - Kanadische Eröffnung</a>
333: iX magazine, December 14, 2006
334: </strong></font><br>
1.570 simon 335: The German IT magazine iX reviews the 4.0 release of OpenBSD and also mentions
1.550 mbalmer 336: why we don't support blobs and why this is beneficial to our users.
337: The article gives OpenBSD a very good rating for being strictly free software,
338: its swift installation, the support for upgrades, and the large number of
339: platforms and architectures it runs on.
340: <p>
341:
342: </ul>
343:
1.546 ian 344: <h2>November, 2006</h2>
345: <ul>
346:
1.549 ian 347: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
1.582 ! grunk 348: <a href='http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20061110204834'>
1.549 ian 349: Official support for OpenBSD in Parallels Workstation</a>
350: undeadly.org, November 10, 2006
351: </strong></font><br>
352: OpenBSD is now supported by Parallels, a commercial OS
353: virtualization product for Mac OS X, Linux or MS-Windows.
354: In addition to allowing users to run both OpenBSD and one of those other
355: systems concurrently, the announcement means that developers with Intel Mac
356: hardware can run multiple test systems; the Undeadly Editor adds:
357: "I've had up to six OpenBSD guest systems operating simultaneously,
358: versions 3.8 through 4.0 (and -current)."
359: This also reinforces the increasing commercial acceptance of our favorite OS.
360: <p>
361:
362: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
363: <a href="http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2006/11/bsdtalk082-openbsd-developer-jason.html">
364: Interview with Jason Wright</a>, BSDTalk 82, November 8, 2006
365: </strong></font><br>
366: Jason talks about the OpenBSD development process (particularly for device drivers
367: and getting hardware documentation from vendors), Sun SPARC hardware (particularly
368: the Ultra III), ham radio (APRS) with OpenBSD, and more.
369: <p>
370:
371: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
372: <a href='http://news.com.com/2061-10795_3-6132572.html'>
373: OpenBSD turns 4.0</a>
374: CNET News.com, November 3, 2006
375: </strong></font><br>
376: Stephen Shankland talks about the UltraSPARC III code in 4.0, and notes that
377: OpenBSD has chosen to stay with stable GCC versions rather than moving to
378: the latest and most bloated GCC versions like Linux did.
379: Quotes Theo as saying: OpenBSD doesn't aim for particular niches,
380: but it's popular in network applications... "The biggest
381: users of OpenBSD these days are people who need our fancy networking
382: features..."
383: <p>
384:
1.546 ian 385: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
386: <a href="http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/55/">
387: OpenBSD 4.0 Review</a>, Software In Review, November 1, 2006
388: </strong></font><br>
389: "In an era when the next edition of Microsoft Windows is pushed
390: back more than a year, and popular GNU/Linux distributions are
391: almost expected to have their release dates delayed by weeks or
392: months, it's nice to know that at least one operating system releases
393: on schedule without all kinds of showstopping bugs and problems.
394: OpenBSD 4.0 was released on November 1 with its usual mix of new
395: hardware support and enhanced operating system features."
396: So opens Jem Matzam's review of the new 4.0 release.
397: Jem gives a brief overview of the project, discusses
398: several of the most important new features, evaluates
399: his installation and use of the system on a desktop and a notebook.
1.548 saad 400: He also offers a few recommendations for future developments to make
1.546 ian 401: the project even better.
402: There's even a link to the Wikipedia article on
403: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humppa">
404: Humppa</a>, for those who may have heard this term but not
405: the music behind it.
406: <p>
407:
1.547 ian 408: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
409: <a href='http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1243'>
410: Big changes with OpenBSD 4.0 out today</a>
411: Tectonic, November 1, 2006
412: </strong></font><br>
413: "With his characteristic no-frills approach OpenBSD team leader
414: Theo de Raadt this morning announced the release of OpenBSD 4.0."
415: This article lists the highlights of the 4.0 release and
416: tells readers where to order CD's or download the release.
417: Quotes Theo: ""We are pleased to announce the official release of
418: OpenBSD 4.0. This is our 20th release on CD-Rom (and 21st via FTP).
419: We remain proud of OpenBSD's record of ten years with only a single
420: remote hole in the default install,"
421: <p>
422:
423: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
424: <a href='http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061101-8123.html'>
425: OpenBSD 4.0 released</a>
426: Ars Technica, November 1, 2006
427: </strong></font><br>
428: A short note about the 4.0 release; refers to the O'ReillyNet article below.
429: <p>
430:
1.546 ian 431: </ul>
432:
1.539 ian 433: <h2>October, 2006</h2>
434: <ul>
1.540 ian 435:
436: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.546 ian 437: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/6769">
438: OpenBSD 4.0: Pufferix's Adventures</a>, O'Reilly Network, October 26, 2006
439: </strong></font><br>
440: Federico Biancuzzi interviewed a dozen and a half developers and compiled
441: the results into this report, all while listening to the obligatory Humppa.
1.548 saad 442: Topics include the new blob-free wireless drivers, pf and pf/dhcp interaction,
1.546 ian 443: CARP demotion, ipsecctl replacing ipsecadm, hardware support for disk/bioctl,
444: USB serial, new installation customization features, ports/packages, RCS, X,
445: CPU support for Sparc/64, AMD/Intel "speed step" techniques, and more.
446: <p>
447:
448: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.543 mbalmer 449: <a href="http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2006/10/bsdtalk076-openbsd-developer-marc.html">
450: Interview with Marc Balmer about OpenCON 2006</a>, bsdtalk076, October 12, 2006
451: </strong></font><br>
452: BSDTalk interviews Marc Balmer about the upcoming
453: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2006</a> conference
454: in Venice, Italy, how he got involved in the OpenBSD project, and what he
455: uses the OpenBSD operating system for in his company. Marc Balmer tells us about
456: the history of the conference that is dedicated solely to OpenBSD, why it
457: is taking place in Venice, and why he likes OpenBSD as the platform of choice
458: for his many customers.
459: <p>
460:
461: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.544 ian 462: <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/11/olpc-under-fire-for-proprietary-components/">
463: OLPC under fire for proprietary components</a>, Engadget, October 11, 2006
464: </strong></font><br>
465: Hardware site Engadget is one of several that has picked up this controversy
466: from the Jem Report quoted below and on the mailing lists.
467: Quotes Theo's reaction to Jim Gettys' latest comments:
468: "Jim is obviously very clever at convincing people that children
469: need proprietary laptops (OLPC has a greater percentage of undocumented
470: hardware than a Thinkpad from 3 years ago). It is easy for Jim to
471: convince people these things because he doesn't care at all about
472: the future maintainance of drivers. I do. And I think most of you
473: also do."
474: The article ends with: "Wow, them be fightin' words -- we're pulling up ringside
475: seats already."
476: <p>
477:
478: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
479: <a href="http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/286/">
480: Making sense of the One Laptop Per Child proprietary software row</a>,
481: The Jem Report, October 9, 2006
482: </strong></font><br>
483: Jem Matzan explores this ongoing controversy by blending separate interviews with
484: Jim Gettys, Richard Stallman and our own Theo de Raadt.
485: Theo consistently and clearly defends the project's interest in
486: getting documentation on, and permission to distribute, firmware
487: so that users can use hardware they have paid for.
488: Commenting on the multiple NDA-requiring parts in the current version of
489: the OLPC laptop, Theo notes that "If I am careful in selection,
490: I can buy a laptop on the market today that has fewer proprietary parts."
491: And on the OLPC project's use of NDA-requiring parts at all:
492: "I feel they have misled the community by acting as if they are open;
493: they rode on our coat-tails. Now it turns out they are going to ship GPL'd
494: code mixed with NDA-requiring proprietary drivers in the end.
495: Even their LinuxBIOS will need to link into drivers that
496: no one can repair because the documentation is locked up..."
497: <p>
498:
499: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.582 ! grunk 500: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20061006000709">
1.541 ian 501: OLPC hurts wireless documentation efforts</a>, undeadly.org, October 6, 2006
502: </strong></font><br>
503: Theo de Raadt takes on the high-profile
504: <a href="http://laptop.org/">OLPC</a> (One Laptop Per Child) Project
505: for not demanding open documentation from its wireless
506: chip manufacturer, wasting a "golden moment" opportunity to use sales
507: volume in the millions to pressure chip vendors, and thus helping destroy
508: the open source movement that makes the OLPC laptops affordable -
509: truly, betraying that hand that feeds it.
1.542 deraadt 510: Also strong words from other developers such as Bob Beck.
1.541 ian 511: <p>
512:
513: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.540 ian 514: <a href="http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;639736970;fp;2;fpid;3">
515: The sad state of computer security</a>, PC World Australia, October 5, 2006
516: </strong></font><br>
517: Roger Grimes opines on how bad security really is for most of the world
518: (and it is really bad). "If you aren't using OpenBSD [or a few others],
519: then every other product in the world is pretty bad in comparison.
1.582 ! grunk 520: <br>
1.540 ian 521: "Most software contains numerous vulnerabilities, holes, and
522: exploitable routines. Even our anti-malware software and devices,
523: the things that are supposed to protect us, are full of buffer
524: overflows and vulnerabilities."
1.582 ! grunk 525: <br>
1.540 ian 526: And, Grimes generalizes,
527: "Sadly, the world has decided that real computer security doesn't
528: matter any more than real terrorist security. It's all lip service.
529: We are, and apparently choose to be, reactive sheep. Proactive
530: thinkers get ignored and ridiculed...
531: As more and more of the world goes online, and as more of our
532: important infrastructure goes "e-something," it would appear that
533: we are on a collision course headed toward a tipping point event.
534: And when it does, the sheep will stand aghast wondering how it
535: happened."
536: Worth reading!
537: <p>
538:
1.539 ian 539: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
540: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061002-7874.html">
541: OpenBSD creator wants users to pressure Intel on open source policies</a>,
542: Ars Technica, October 2, 2006.
543: </strong></font><br>
544: Summarizes Theo's efforts to obtain documentation and freely
545: redistributable firmware from Intel.
546: <p>
547:
548: </ul>
549:
1.536 grunk 550: <h2>September, 2006</h2>
551: <ul>
552:
553: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.537 ian 554: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/7184">
555: OpenBSD: Intel Accused Of Being "An Open Source Fraud"</a>,
556: KernelTrap, September 30, 2006.
557: </strong></font><br>
558: Mentions Damien's thread on misc summarizing Intel's policy toward
559: open-source software as being to make Intel "look like we're
560: open-source friendly by opening a project on sourceforge," and,
561: "give the open-source community the bare minimum so that they can
562: serve as our beta-testers." Damien reverse engineered the wpi(4)
563: driver source for the Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Driver,
564: despite Intel's refusal to freely provide documentation.
565: Regular readers will know that OpenBSD has been at war with Intel
566: for ages over these chipsets.
567: Quotes Theo as saying:
568: "before we ask a vendor, we have already lost (ie. the
569: device does not work). When a vendor says no, we have lost nothing
570: further -- there is no way we can lose further than having the
571: device not work. We can only win, and then the device works. So
572: there is no point in giving up until we win back the rights to write
573: software for the hardware that we have purchased."
574: <p>
575:
576: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
577: <a href="http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2006/09/bsdtalk069-interview-with-christoph.html">
578: Interview with Christoph Egger about Xen on OpenBSD</a>, bsdtalk069, September 26, 2006
579: </strong></font><br>
580: BSDTalk interviews Christoph Egger about Xen and about how Christoph make OpenBSD
581: able to run as a guest operating system on Xen.
582: Includes some background about Xen as well as what it would take to
583: make OpenBSD run as the "dom0" or master host.
584: <p>
585:
586: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.536 grunk 587: <a href="http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2006/09/bsdtalk068-interview-with-openbsd.html">
588: Intervew with OpenBSD developer Bob Beck</a>, bsdtalk068, September 22, 2006
589: </strong></font><br>
590: Bob Beck talks about spamd and his history with OpenBSD and UNIX
591: on Will Backman's bsdtalk. Bob gives us a look into his work on
592: OpenBSD and gives us amusing stories of how spamd works and how it
593: actually fares in 'the wild.' The podcast lasts a whole 25 minutes,
594: 59 seconds so it's long enough to occupy a meal or a small commute.
595: <p>
596:
1.537 ian 597: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.582 ! grunk 598: <a href="http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060920185115">
1.537 ian 599: OpenBSD 4.0 pre-orders are up!</a>, undeadly.org, September 20, 2006
600: </strong></font><br>
601: One of the first mentions of 4.0 going on sale for pre-ordering
602: (the official release date is November 1).
603: Also gives a list of the many good things that have been added
604: in 4.0, including many new device drivers,
605: support for UltraSPARC III on sparc64, improvements to ipsecctl,
606: a new RCS implementation, and much more.
607: Includes a reminder to "show your support for the project by
1.538 deraadt 608: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/orders.html">placing your pre-orders today!"</a>
1.537 ian 609: <p>
610:
1.536 grunk 611: </ul>
612:
1.534 ian 613: <h2>August, 2006</h2>
614: <ul>
615:
616: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.537 ian 617: <a href="http://anil.recoil.org/blog/articles/2006/08/21/openbsd-xen-boots-multi-user">
618: OpenBSD/Xen boots multi-user</a>, Recoil Blog, August 21, 2006
619: </strong></font><br>
620: Anil discusses his stewardship of a Google Summer of Code project in which
621: Christoph Egger ported and revised some NetBSD code to make OpenBSD boot up natively
622: as a guest operating system under
623: <a href="http://www.xensource.com/">Xen</a>, the open-source hypervisor
624: or "virtualization" system.
625: <p>
626:
627: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.534 ian 628: <a href="http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-openbsd.html">
629: Take a closer look at OpenBSD</a>, IBM developerWorks, August 08, 2006
630: </strong></font><br>
631: Tim McIntire holds OpenBSD up as a beacon to UNIX users, calling it
632: "quite possibly the most secure operating system on the planet."
633: He talks about how the development process leads to greater security
634: and how tools like OpenSSH make it out into the wider UNIX/Linux world.
635: "OpenBSD might not have a huge user base compared to other UNIX-like operating systems,
636: but it is installed at the most crucial points of many networks."
637: Has a somewhat brief but effective discussion of installing the software, and
638: ends with references to several papers and sites of interest.
639: <p>
640:
641: </ul>
642:
1.531 ian 643: <h2>July, 2006</h2>
644: <ul>
645: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
646: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/case-studies--profiles/founder-breathes-the-open-air/2006/07/17/1152988468274.html">
647: Founder breathes the Open air</a>, The Age, July 18, 2006
648: </strong></font><br>
649: Subtitled "Hiking in exotic climes is a brain adventure for the founder of OpenBSD", this is
650: as much about hiking and learning new symbols as about software, but our leader
651: manages to do both, and bring both into the interview.
652: The article quotes Theo as saying
653: "Another major lesson I have learnt is that most people only care
654: about things working for themselves, and thus it is very easy in a
655: group to build poorly thought-out solutions. It is very simple to
656: write small hacks and end up with unmaintainable systems in the long term."
657: Describes the hackathons as an important part of the project's process
658: and describes the funding issues as well.
659: <p>
660:
661: </ul>
662:
1.525 ian 663: <h2>June, 2006</h2>
664: <ul>
665: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.535 steven 666: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=472693&rl=1">
1.530 ian 667: Alternatives to LAMP</a>, informit.com, June 2, 2006
668: </strong></font><br>
669: While "Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP" get most of the attention,
670: there are alternatives to each that are, in some way, better.
671: David Chisnal starts this article with a look at OS alternatives,
672: and OpenBSD gets the most detailed coverage, including this:
673: "When it comes to security, OpenBSD has a well-earned reputation
674: as the operating system for the truly paranoid. The entire kernel
675: and base system, including the OpenBSD fork of Apache, undergoes a
676: constant auditing process. The OpenBSD attitude is that any bug is
677: potentially exploitable, and when a bug is found by the auditing
678: team the next step is to attempt to remove every single occurrence
679: of that category of bug. This approach leads to an incredibly secure
680: system." Also talks about our pioneering use of W^X and the
681: "incredibly powerful and easy to configure" packet filter, pf.
682: <p>
683:
684: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.527 ian 685: <a href="http://www.osdir.com/Article8785.phtml">
1.525 ian 686: Microsoft adopts open-source security feature</a>, OSDir.com, June 1, 2006
687: </strong></font><br>
688: Microsoft borrows one of OpenBSD's security features for Vista, stack/library randomization,
689: under the name Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR).
690: "Until now, the feature has been most prominently used in the OpenBSD Unix variant and
691: the PaX and Exec Shield security patches for Linux"
692: (despite the article's title, there is nothing open-source about Microsoft's implementation).
693: <p>
694:
1.526 ian 695: </ul>
1.525 ian 696:
1.514 ian 697: <h2>May, 2006</h2>
698: <ul>
1.524 ian 699: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
700: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6650">
701: OpenBSD: wpi, A Blob Free Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Driver</a>, KernelTrap, May 28, 2006
702: </strong></font><br>
703: Damien Bergamini wrote OpenBSD's all-open-source driver for the Intel Pro/Wireless,
704: a sharp contrast to other projects' bogus "open source" drivers that are just wrappers around
705: a "binary blob" (source code not available, sorry) provided by the vendor.
706: "His announcement came a little over two months after Intel released
707: the controversial ipw3945 driver for Linux which included
708: a binary-only daemon described as necessary for enforcing regulatory
709: limits for the radio transmitter on the wireless device."
710: Bergamini's work proves yet again that vendors don't have to obscure their products
711: to make them useful.
712: <p>
1.518 ian 713:
714: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.520 ian 715: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/openbsd/c2k6/who1">
1.523 ian 716: c2k6, Who's Who At the 2006 OpenBSD Hackathon, Part I</a>
717: and
718: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6662">Part II</a>,
1.522 ian 719: KernelTrap, May 28, 2006
1.520 ian 720: </strong></font><br>
1.521 deraadt 721: Jeremy Andrews visited our developers at the Hackathon and gives
1.523 ian 722: a brief but colorful summary of most of the team members:
1.520 ian 723: why they chose OpenBSD, how they got involved, what they do, and
724: their plans for the week.
725: <p>
726:
727: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.523 ian 728: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/2006/05/22/OpenBSD-on-Flash.html">
729: Installing OpenBSD on Flash</a>,
730: Ping Wales, May 22, 2006
731: </strong></font><br>
732: David Chisnall shows how to set up an OpenBSD boot image for
733: Soekris or PC Engines machines that boot from flash memory.
734: <p>
735:
736: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.520 ian 737: <a href="http://www.serverwatch.com/eur/article.php/3603961">
738: Enterprise Unix Roundup: Whither BSD?</a>, ServerWatch, May 5, 2006
739: </strong></font><br>
740: Amy Newman and Brian Proffitt state that the BSDs are often overlooked
741: because of their limited commercial acceptance.
742: The authors call this an unfortunate oversight, because recent releases of
743: the freely available BSD flavors show significant technical improvements.
1.523 ian 744: As an example, they specifically refer to OpenBSD's sensor framework
1.520 ian 745: (introduced with 3.9).
746: Newman and Proffitt also accuse big vendors of picking the nice parts from
747: the BSDs' code and giving nothing back to the community in return.
748: <p>
749:
750: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.518 ian 751: <a href="http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/35/1/">
752: OpenBSD 3.9 Review</a>, Software In Review, May 3, 2006
753: </strong></font><br>
754: Jem Matzan takes the 3.9 release out for a spin, and likes it.
755: Noting that each release consists of a lot of small changes
756: and some major improvements - and mentioning hardware support, sensors,
757: and "blob removal" - he clearly thinks the project is doing a lot of things right.
758: "Everything you get in the release is production-ready, secure by
759: default... and comes with possibly the finest integrated documentation
760: in the Unix-clone world. While you might find a poorly programmed
761: driver or other base system component in other BSDs and GNU/Linux
762: distributions, in OpenBSD if something is supported, it works."
763: <p>
764:
765: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
766: [GERMAN]
767: <a href="http://www.linux-magazin.de/Artikel/ausgabe/2006/06/news_zut/news_zut.html">
768: Mozilla greift OpenBSD unter die Arme</a>, Linux Magazin, Issue 06/06, May 2006, p. 18
769: </strong></font><br>
770: The German <a href="http://www.linux-magazin.de/">Linux Magazin</a> has a short
1.580 tobias 771: article about OpenBSD's financial situation and Marco Peereboom's
1.535 steven 772: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060321034114">call for donations</a>
1.518 ian 773: on undeadly.org. The article further mentions how OpenSSH development
774: is connected to OpenBSD.
775: <p>
776:
1.514 ian 777: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
778: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6550">
779: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, KernelTrap, May 2, 2006
780: </strong></font><br>
781: Jeremy Andrews conducts a free-ranging interview, focused mainly on 3.9 and drivers,
782: that gives Theo a chance to explain how the big North American chip vendors'
783: business practices make it harder for open source projects,
1.515 ian 784: talk about "binary blobs" vs firmware in drivers, and more.
1.514 ian 785: There's also coverage of where the project is going up to and after 3.9 and where
1.516 steven 786: it might (or might not) go in the future, why doing things right (and
1.514 ian 787: running this project) is so important to Theo,
788: and even why he does mountain biking!
789: <p>
790:
791: </ul>
792:
1.503 ian 793: <h2>April, 2006</h2>
794: <ul>
795: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.532 ray 796: <a href="http://www.dribin.org/dave/blog/archives/2006/04/28/os_x_passwords_2/">
797: Mac OS X Password Implementation Compared to OpenBSD's</a>, April 28, 2006
798: </strong></font><br>
799: Dave Dribin analyzes Mac OS X's password implementation
800: and compares it with OpenBSD's:
801: "The king of the hill has to go to OpenBSD,
802: which uses a hash based on the Blowfish block cipher called bcrypt.
803: The benefit of [bcrypt] is best stated on their website:
804: <blockquote>
805: The most important property of bcrypt (and thus crypt_blowfish)
806: is that it is adaptable to future processor performance improvements,
807: allowing you to arbitrarily increase the processing cost of checking a
808: password while still maintaining compatibility with your older password hashes.
809: Already now bcrypt hashes you would use are several orders of magnitude
810: stronger than traditional Unix DES-based or FreeBSD-style MD5-based hashes.
811: </blockquote>
812: This is just plain cool."
813: <p>
814:
815: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.512 ian 816: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/6557">
817: OpenBSD 3.9: Blob-Busters Interviewed</a>, OnLAMP, April 27, 2006
818: </strong></font><br>
819: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several of the developers on improvements
820: in 3.9: the continuing absence of "blob drivers", IPMI and sensors, apmd performance
821: adjustment, Macs, rthreads, multicast, trunk, hostapd, and more.
1.513 saad 822: jsg clarifies the issue of "binary blob" drivers vs "firmware", and
1.512 ian 823: discusses the NVIDIA nForce Ethernet driver he did after NVIDIA did refuse
824: to give out documentation; they can't stop us, but they can slow us down.
825: The result: "There aren't any drivers in OpenBSD with binary-only components;
826: this is quite a contrast to pretty much everyone else out there."
827: marco comments on the IPMI work in 3.9, and adds:
828: "IPMI is a standard, but there are vendors out there
1.513 saad 829: that have reading comprehension issues...".
1.512 ian 830: A long list of other developers explain their contributions
831: and other changes that make 3.9 one of our best releases yet.
832: <p>
833:
834: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.517 mbalmer 835: [GERMAN]
836: <a href="http://www.guug.de/uptimes/index.html">
837: Stop BLOB!</a>, UpTimes, April 25, 2006
838: </strong></font><br>
839: Wilhelm Bühler gives an overview in a short article about Blobs, what they
840: are and why they are bad.
841: <p>
842:
843: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.508 ian 844: <a href="http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/34/1/">
845: Using OpenBSD</a>, Software In Review, April 24, 2006
846: </strong></font><br>
847: Jem Matzan gives a brief overview of using the system.
848: Covers ports and packages, use of SMP kernel, and more.
849: Capsule summary of how our security policy affects the administrator:
850: "Because it is secure by default, you may have to do more initial
851: configuration with OpenBSD than with most other Unix and Unix-like
852: operating systems, but you'll spend a lot less time securing it --
853: maybe no time at all, if you follow the instructions in the manual
854: pages."
855: <p>
856:
857: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.519 ian 858: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/03/16/1749215.shtml?tid=8">
859: Using OpenBSD on the desktop</a>, NewsForge, April 21, 2006
860: </strong></font><br>
861: Considers the use of OpenBSD as a desktop operating system,
862: starting with "Secure by default" - who wants to have their desktop hacked? -
863: and continues:
864: "OpenBSD's clean code and design also provide rock-solid stability.
865: I used to have lots of problems and crashes with new versions of
866: Linux (kernel 2.6.x) and FreeBSD (versions 5.x and 6.x). The main
867: focus of OpenBSD developers is to provide programs that work ...
868: [they] prefer to improve their code rather than just
869: add more new features and end up with a bloated and unstable product."
870: Covers X, ports/packages, window managers, what is and is not supported,
871: and more. Final thought:
872: "OpenBSD's clean design and remarkable stability, along with its
873: proactive security, not only make OpenBSD a potential candidate for
874: home desktop users but also every system administrator's dream come
875: true for business environments."
876: <p>
877:
878: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.511 djm 879: [FRENCH]
1.509 djm 880: <a href="http://developpeur.journaldunet.com/itws/060419-itw-openssh-openbsd-miller.shtml">
1.511 djm 881: JDN Développeurs interviews Damien Miller</a>,
1.509 djm 882: JDN Développeurs, April 19, 2006</strong></font><br>
883: Interview with Damien Miller, discussing OpenSSH security, the OpenBSD
884: development approach, the problem of blobby drivers and the recent request
1.510 djm 885: for funding.
1.509 djm 886: <p>
887:
888: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.507 cloder 889: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6497">
890: Interview with developers Jonathan Gray and Damien Bergamini</a>,
891: Kerneltrap, April 19, 2006</strong></font><br>
892: An interview with the authors of OpenBSD's new NVIDIA Ethernet driver. OpenBSD's
893: policy forbidding binary driver blobs is discussed, and the developers give a good
894: overview of how they went about implementing the new driver.
895: <p>
896:
897: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.528 ian 898: <a href="http://www.thehostingnews.com/article2217.html">GoDaddy.com
899: Donates $10K to Open Source Development Project</a>,
900: The Hosting News, April 19, 2006</strong></font><br>
901: GoDaddy.com, which claims to be "the Number One registrar of domain
902: names worldwide", recently donated $10,000 to the OpenSSH project
903: because, "according to the company, OpenSSH has become a staple
904: of all free Unix and Linux operating systems in the world."
905: They use it, and their customers use it, and they recognize the
906: value of supporting an open source projects that is, as company
907: CEO Bob Parsons says, "integral to online security".
1.582 ! grunk 908: <br>
1.529 ian 909: Similar articles at
1.528 ian 910: <a href="http://www.hostsearch.com/news/the_go_daddy_group_news_4366.asp">
1.529 ian 911: hostsearch.com</a> and
912: <a href="http://www.linuxelectrons.com/article.php/20060419090443506">
913: LinuxElectrons.com</a>
1.528 ian 914: <p>
915:
916: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.506 aanriot 917: [FRENCH] Principles and usage of OpenSSH,
918: <a href="http://www.gnulinuxmag.com/">Linux Magazine France</a>,
919: issue 82, April 2006, p. 28-33
920: </strong></font><br>
1.533 ray 921: A 6 page article from Alexandre Courbot focuses on OpenSSH and its
1.507 cloder 922: basics. It begins with an history of the different implementations, and
1.506 aanriot 923: is punctuated with examples.
924: Tunneling features are described, as well as
1.535 steven 925: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=scp&sektion=1">scp</a>,
926: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-agent&sektion=1">ssh-agent</a>,
1.506 aanriot 927: and
1.535 steven 928: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=1">sftp</a>.
1.506 aanriot 929: <p>
930:
931: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.503 ian 932: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/71658">
933: Mozilla Foundation spendet für OpenBSD</a>, heise online, April 4, 2006
934: </strong></font><br>
935: Short article mentioning the donation the Mozilla Foundation made in support of
936: further OpenSSH development.
937: The article emphasizes the opportunity to wire money through the project's
938: new European account - this one donation will not meet the
939: project's funding needs for all time.
940: <p>
1.504 bernd 941: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
942: [GERMAN] "OpenBSD mit finanziellen Problemen", c't 8/06, p. 45.,
943: April 3, 2006
944: </strong></font><br>
945: A very short article about OpenBSD's financial problems. They mention that
946: this could compromise future hackathons.
947: <p>
1.503 ian 948:
949: </ul>
950:
1.487 ian 951: <h2>March, 2006</h2>
952: <ul>
1.495 ian 953: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.500 ian 954: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200603/theo_interview.html">
1.501 ian 955: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>, DaemonNews, March, 2006
1.500 ian 956: </strong></font><br>
957: Chris Silva conducts a lightweight but wide-ranging and fun interview with Theo
958: on topics including "Puffy",
959: the logos used by certain other BSD projects -
960: Theo quips that "I really like how they make absolutely no statement at all" -
961: what's new in 3.9,
962: and of course project expenses.
963: Theo notes that "The electric bill is about $100 USD per week".
964: <!--
965: ... must be what comes from heating your house with VAXen.
966: -->
967: The interviewer nicely ends with a link to our donations page.
968: <p>
969:
970: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.498 ian 971: <a href="http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/239/1/">
972: Linux supporters fiddle while OpenSSH burns</a>, The Jem Report, March 28, 2006
973: </strong></font><br>
1.499 ian 974: This write-up focusses on OpenBSD/OpenSSH funding, and has some
975: original legwork to go with it.
1.498 ian 976: Writer Jem Matzan took the trouble to
977: contact many of the companies who charge a lot for products
978: featuring OpenSSH and yet give nothing to OpenSSH in return.
979: Companies like SCO, IBM, Apple, and Sun.
980: Sun apparently did the worst job of responding:
981: "Since the release of Solaris 10, who has been a larger open source
982: software cheerleader than Sun Microsystems?", Matzan asks. "I asked Sun
983: representatives what they would do if OpenSSH were to disappear. The only response
984: I got was that there are parts of Solaris that compete with OpenSSH,
985: and that because of this, the company would rather not comment
986: further on the issue." What the Sun teleprompter-readers don't seem to realize -
987: but Matzan does - is that
988: <a href="http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/on/usr/src/cmd/ssh/ssh/ssh.c">
989: SunSSH <em>is</em> OpenSSH</a>.
990: Or, at least, a mangled version of it...
991: IBM, on the other hand, is still trying to formulate their response.
1.582 ! grunk 992: <br>
1.498 ian 993: <p>
994:
995: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
996: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/03/20/2050223.shtml?tid=8">
997: Interview: Theo de Raadt of OpenBSD</a>, NewsForge, March 28, 2006
998: </strong></font><br>
999: A wide-ranging interview with Theo about new stuff in 3.9, security, funding,
1000: "blob" drivers, and more.
1001: Theo notes that "We've had 10 years of nearly fanatical devotion
1002: to anything which can make OpenBSD more secure. A very important
1003: part of that is that we have not been afraid to completely overhaul
1004: anything even if it breaks backward compatibility. Secondly, when
1005: we have found a flaw in any part of the system we have assumed that
1006: the same mistake was made elsewhere, and gone on a hunt to fix them
1007: all. Thirdly, we have developed and incorporated a collection of
1008: methods that make software flaws very difficult to attack..."
1009: Ends by trying to shame the companies that use OpenSSH without contributing
1010: anything back - Sun is given especial mention here - and ends with
1011: the tantalizing line ".. if an OpenSSH hole is found that applies to SunSSH,
1012: Sun will not be informed. Or maybe that has happened already." Hmmmm.
1013: <p>
1014:
1015: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.495 ian 1016: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39259254,00.htm">
1017: OpenBSD 3.9 adds sensor framework</a>, ZDNet UK, March 24, 2006
1018: </strong></font><br>
1019: It's easy to focus on our project's security, but we innovate in other areas too.
1020: This article highlights the "sensors" framework added in 3.9 to provide and integrated
1021: approach to handling Dell PowerEdge servers' Embedded Server Management (ESM), IPMI, and
1022: in general temperature and environmental issues.
1023: "There is a significant new sensor framework [in OpenBSD 3.9], which
1024: supports voltage sensors, fan sensors, temperature sensors, and so
1025: on," said de Raadt. "Such a feature is still missing in Linux and
1026: other major operating systems." ...
1027: De Raadt has already been using the sensor framework to monitor the
1028: machines running in
1029: <a href="images/newrack.jpg">the project's server room</a>. "I now get a call
1030: on my cell phone whenever something is wrong in the machine room,"
1031: <p>
1032:
1033: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1034: <a href="http://comment.zdnet.co.uk/other/0,39020682,39259281,00.htm">
1035: Paying for free software may be the bargain of a lifetime</a>, ZDNet UK, March 24, 2006
1036: </strong></font><br>
1037: Starts with a Theo quote from the previous article on ZDNet:
1038: "A culture of entitlement is starting to damage the open source community".
1039: The article argues that mega-computer-companies that use open source tend to use BSD:
1040: "The open BSDs may be less famous than Linux, but they are arguably
1041: superior in stability and security. This has made it popular in
1042: ISPs and elsewhere - Apple, for example, adopted BSD within OS X.
1043: BSD, unlike software released under the GPL, carrys no legal
1044: obligations for the adopter to provide anything for the community in return."
1045: Goes on to argue that these companies <em>ought</em> to be fair enough
1046: to send a small bit of their money back into funding open source.
1047: "In the time it takes to read this article, we calculate that Apple
1048: will have easily made enough to pay-off OpenBSD's annual losses,
1049: with a little left over to buy black turtlenecks for all. It's not
1050: just Apple's baby - other companies owe far more to OpenBSD - but
1051: in open source a little symbolism goes a long way."
1052: <p>
1053:
1.487 ian 1054: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.494 bernd 1055: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/71174">
1056: OpenBSD muss an den Sparstrumpf</a>, heise online, March 23, 2006
1057: </strong></font><br>
1.495 ian 1058: OpenBSD is touching its savings - Small news article about the project's
1.494 bernd 1059: financial situation.
1060: <p>
1061:
1062: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.495 ian 1063: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39259042,00.htm">
1064: OpenBSD Founder Makes Funding Plea</a>, ZDNet UK, March 23, 2006
1065: </strong></font><br>
1066: One of the first mainstream sites to pick up on Marco's article (below),
1067: this one reports the funding figures on how much it really costs to
1068: produce our favorite operating system.
1069: "Although OpenBSD has a number of commercial users, including many
1070: ISPs, de Raadt claimed that all of its donations come from individuals
1071: rather than companies many of who claim the have no budget to pay
1072: for the operating system. "The culture of entitlement is starting
1073: to damage the open source community," he said."
1.582 ! grunk 1074: <br>
1.496 ian 1075: Also online at
1076: <a href="http://www.zdnetindia.com/news/software/stories/135760.html">ZDNet India</a>.
1077: <p>
1078:
1079: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1080: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/2006/03/22/OpenBSD-money.html">
1081: OpenBSD in Financial Trouble</a>, Ping Wales, March 21, 2006
1082: </strong></font><br>
1083: David Chisnall reports that "OpenBSD is one of my favourite platforms;
1084: its focus on security and ease-of-use makes it a very simple and
1085: safe system to use. Unfortunately, the OpenBSD organisation is now
1086: experiencing financial difficulty. For the last two years, the
1087: project has made a $20,000/year loss, something which it cannot
1088: sustain indefinitely."
1089: Goes on to report on the growing use of OpenBSD in commercial software
1090: (and hardware!), and that none of the "big guys" has given anything back.
1091: Unlike most of the articles on this topic, this one is kind enough to
1092: include a direct link to our orders page and recommend its readers
1093: to buy a copy of the CD to help fund the project.
1.495 ian 1094: <p>
1095:
1096: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.498 ian 1097: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/06/03/21/1555243.shtml">
1098: OpenBSD Project in Financial Danger</a>, Slashdot, March 21, 2006
1099: </strong></font><br>
1100: Slashdot mentions and quotes from Marco's article (below),
1101: with a reminder that
1102: "The OpenBSD team is the one that also develops the OpenSSH suite,
1103: used nowadays almost everywhere."
1104: Ends with this quote from Marco:
1105: "Without naming entities or projects by name, there are others out
1106: there that are sitting on some cash. It would be wonderful if these
1107: entities could share some of the wealth to keep us going."
1108: <p>
1109:
1110: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.505 grunk 1111: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060321034114">
1.495 ian 1112: OpenBSD Finances</a>, OpenBSD Journal, March 21, 2006
1113: </strong></font><br>
1114: Marco Peereboom's article notes that
1115: "OpenBSD for the past 2 years has turned a loss of approximately $20K USD" per year.
1116: Hackathons - where a lot of developers get together in critical mass and churn out
1117: new ideas and new code in great quantity - cost from US$10K-30K each, and we try to run
1118: a few of them each year.
1119: Meanwhile, compananies that use OpenBSD and companies - many of them highly profitable -
1120: that incorporate OpenSSH into operating systems and even routers and other appliances
1121: have not been forthcoming: no major computer company has given funding
1122: to the OpenBSD project.
1123: It's time for them to do so.
1124: <p>
1125:
1126: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.497 ian 1127: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/03/08/1646257.shtml?tid=8">
1128: Software RAID on OpenBSD using RAIDframe</a>, NewsForge, March 14, 2006
1129: </strong></font><br>
1130: "Software RAID provides an easy way to add redundancy or speed up a system
1131: without spending lots of money on a RAID adapter."
1132: Manolis Tzanidakis talks us through setting up RAID using OpenBSD.
1133: He describes the detailed steps, and recommends careful testing
1134: before putting the system into production, including taking one disk
1135: out of service and ensuring that it gets reloaded correctly.
1136: Ends with a technique for monitoring clean operation on an ongoing basis.
1137: <p>
1138:
1139: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.489 deraadt 1140: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">Report on Business Television</a>
1141: March 10, 5:45pm MST</strong></font><br>
1.490 deraadt 1142: Theo de Raadt was interviewed by Howard Green on <b>The Business Show</b>:<br>
1143: <!-- North America mirror:
1144: <a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/robtv2006.avi">Interview 35MB avi file</a>
1.491 deraadt 1145: -->
1.490 deraadt 1146: European mirror:
1147: <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/20060310/robtv2006.avi">Interview 35MB AVI file</a>
1148: <br>
1149: A longer segment is also available at <a href="http://www.robtv.ca">www.robtv.ca</a>.
1.489 deraadt 1150: <p>
1151:
1152: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.487 ian 1153: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200603/openbgpd.html">OpenBGPd in OpenBSD</a>
1154: Daemon News, March, 2006</strong></font><br>
1.497 ian 1155: Check out the notes and slides from Henning Brauer's presentation at
1.487 ian 1156: <a href="http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0602/">NANOG 36</a>;
1157: the text and questions cover everything from how and why OpenBGPd got created,
1158: through configuration and tools, to integration with pf and CARP,
1159: to technical issues regarding use of IPSEC to provide security for BGP packets.
1160: Along the way there's considerable discussion on how the program was
1161: designed to provide reliability and security.
1162: <p>
1163:
1164: </ul>
1165:
1.485 ian 1166: <h2>February, 2006</h2>
1167: <ul>
1168: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.486 ian 1169: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1859">Zero to IPSec in 4 minutes</a>
1170: Security Focus, February 28, 2006</strong></font><br>
1171: This article, as its lead-in says,
1.497 ian 1172: "looks at how to get a fully functional IPSec VPN up and running between two fresh OpenBSD
1.486 ian 1173: installations in about four minutes flat".
1174: If you've shied away from setting up an IPSEC VPN because of config file complexity,
1175: now is the time to reconsider.
1.497 ian 1176: Dragos Ruiu shows you how the ipsecctl command (introduced to the world in OpenBSD 3.8)
1.486 ian 1177: makes it really easy to set up a VPN between consenting OpenBSD machines.
1178: He states that he and a colleague were able to get two machines talking over IPSEC
1179: in a few minutes, and only changing a few configuration files.
1180: He also comments on the relative ease of installing our favorite OS, and hopes
1181: that our ipsecctl will be adopted by the other BSDs (hopefully in a compatible way)
1182: to make firewall setups easier all around the network.
1183: But you don't need to wait for that if you're running OpenBSD 3.8; just follow
1184: the steps in the article.
1185: <p>
1186:
1187: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.485 ian 1188: <a href="http://www.networkmagazineindia.com/200602/vendorvoice02.shtml">The Worm in the Machine</a>
1189: Network Magazine India, February 2006</strong></font><br>
1190: Dilip Ranade elaborates on several reasons why software is drearily buggy and endlessly insecure,
1191: particularly in comparison with other technologies.
1192: Imagines how very bad shape the automotive industry would be in if you had to sign the
1193: same disclaimer of (non-)usability that almost every commercial EULA requires of computer users.
1194: Ends with "I once dreamt that all the computer users in the world
1195: arose in revolt and switched to hardened OpenBSD", though he admits that there's "fat chance" of it
1196: happening in real life.
1197: <p>
1198:
1199: </ul>
1200:
1.492 ian 1201: <h2>January, 2006</h2>
1202: <ul>
1203: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1204: <a href="http://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/2006/01/28.html">Kevin Mitnick on
1205: Coast to Coast AM Radio Show with Art Bell</a>, Jan 28, 2006</strong></font><br>
1206: Art Bell interviewed Kevin Mitnick on his call-in show;
1207: Paul Zacharzewski from Edmonton called to ask Mitnick for his opinion of OpenBSD.
1208: If you don't want to download the whole show from coasttocoastam.com,
1209: you can listen to an
1.497 ian 1210: <a href="http://unworkable.org/misc/mitnick.mp3">MP3 excerpt of this call</a>
1.492 ian 1211: in which Mitnick says: "Well, I actually use OpenBSD, so I do like it".
1212: </ul>
1213:
1.483 ian 1214: <h2>December, 2005</h2>
1215: <ul>
1.555 reyk 1216:
1.483 ian 1217: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.555 reyk 1218: [GERMAN]
1219: <a href="http://www.ini.unizh.ch/~stephan/articles/openbsd/064-069_linux-bsd-fw.pdf">
1220: Wehrhaft abtauchen - HA-fähige Firewall mit OpenBSD/PF</a>, Linux-Magazin, December 2005
1221: </strong></font><br>
1222: High available firewall setups are considered as the high arts of network protection.
1223: Due to clustering the network stays online even if one firewall fails. This article
1224: from Stephan A. Rickauer (Institute of Neuroinformatics, ETH / University Zurich) shows
1225: how well OpenBSD/PF performs in comparison to the well-known duo Linux/Netfilter.
1226: <p>
1227:
1228: </p></li><li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.484 djm 1229: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/375/1">OpenSSH cutting edge</a>
1230: SecurityFocus, December 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
1231: Federico Biancuzzi interviews OpenSSH developer Damien Miller to discuss
1232: features included in the upcoming version 4.3, public key crypto
1233: protocols details, timing based attacks and anti-worm measures.
1234: <p>
1235:
1236: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.492 ian 1237: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/05/11/21/175249.shtml?tid=92&tid=78">Creating
1.483 ian 1238: Secure Wireless Access Points with OpenBSD and OpenVPN</a>
1239: NewsForge, December 13, 2005</strong></font><br>
1240: A cookbook approach to setting up a wireless interface as a secure Access Point
1241: using OpenBSD's hostap, pf, and authpf.
1242: Configuration examples are given with basic explanations and links
1243: to sites with more information on most topics.
1244: <p>
1245:
1246: </ul>
1247:
1248:
1.479 grunk 1249: <h2>November, 2005</h2>
1250: <ul>
1251: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.492 ian 1252: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20051116145737">OpenBSD
1.482 ian 1253: Goes to Venice</a>,
1254: OpenBSD Journal, November 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.497 ian 1255: "What happens when you put a dozen developers on a little island with their
1.482 ian 1256: laptops, power, and an internet connection?
1.582 ! grunk 1257: <br>
1.482 ian 1258: During the first week of November some OpenBSD developers met in a
1259: little island in Venice's lagoon to hack on the ports system.
1260: This was probably the first ports hackathon and was followed by
1.497 ian 1261: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON</a>, a European conference
1.482 ian 1262: fully dedicated to OpenBSD..."
1263: Great coverage of the OpenBSD Porting Hackathon: people, ports, beer, ...
1264: Contains a link to
1265: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/ven05-pvalchev/mgp00008.html">
1266: pval's summary slides</a>.
1267: <p>
1268:
1269: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.481 niallo 1270: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/11/01/1710223">
1271: Trying out the new OpenBSD 3.8</a>,
1272: NewsForge, November 11, 2005</strong></font><br>
1273: This article describes the installation of OpenBSD 3.8 from a Linux user's
1274: perspective, noting the simple elegance of the installer.
1275: Although the installation process may be hard to get used to at first for
1276: the average Linux user, the author tells us that one can learn a lot from
1277: it. Furthermore, the article clears up the common misconception that working
1.497 ian 1278: on an OpenBSD system is very different from working on a Linux system.
1.481 niallo 1279: In particular, the author states that on OpenBSD, <i>"virtually the entire
1280: catalog of familiar free and open source software titles is available through
1281: the packages and ports system"</i>.
1282: <p>
1283:
1284: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1285: <a href="http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3561526">
1286: Return of The BSDs</a>,
1287: internetnews.com, November 3, 2005</strong></font><br>
1288: This article mentions that with all three major BSD flavors having had
1289: a release this fall, BSD is <i>"still very much alive and kicking among
1290: all the noise and buzz created by Linux"</i>. The author talks about
1291: various new or improved features of 3.8, such as bioctl(8), hostapd(8),
1292: network interface aggregation and sasyncd(8), and there are some
1293: quotes from Bob Beck.
1294: <p>
1295:
1296: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.479 grunk 1297: <a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/051101/152/fvrlx.html">
1298: OpenBSD 3.8 improves hardware support</a>,
1299: ZDNet UK, November 1, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.480 ian 1300: This article reports on OpenBSD 3.8, which was released on November 1.
1301: The author gives an overview of the improvements and new
1.479 grunk 1302: features that were made with 3.8, and quotes Theo on RAID management
1303: and Linux.<br>
1304: The 3.8 release hit the news also in some other places:
1305: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/01/1258232">Slashdot</a>
1306: and <a href="http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=12482">OSNews</a>
1307: also report about it, mostly repeating parts
1308: of the release
1309: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.8/ANNOUNCEMENT">ANNOUNCEMENT</a>.
1310: <p>
1311: </ul>
1312:
1.476 ian 1313: <h2>October, 2005</h2>
1314: <ul>
1315:
1316: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1317: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1375194866;fp;16;fpid;0">
1318: 'Nightmare' drove desperate user to open source</a>,
1319: Computerworld, October 24, 2005</strong></font><br>
1320: A great tale of how Mark Uemura of PricewaterhouseCoopers Japan
1321: was forced to move to OpenBSD because the alternatives were too costly
1322: and too unreliable.
1323: This quote will rattle some cages:
1324: "IT managers who want to deploy an open source solution but are
1325: worried about company politics should go ahead and do it without
1326: asking," according to Uemura, who was promoted to IT Manager of PWC Japan
1327: after saving the company seven IT-samurais' salaries.
1328: Further, "In Japan large organizations like Morgan Stanley and the
1329: Bank of America have moved all their backend systems to open source,
1330: Uemura said, because with open source you can reduce IT operating
1331: costs without any commercial lock-in."
1332: <p>
1333:
1.477 saad 1334: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1335: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/6270">
1336: OpenBSD 3.8: Hackers of the Lost RAID</a>,
1337: ONLamp.com, October 20, 2005</strong></font><br>
1338: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about the
1339: new features in OpenBSD 3.8 including interface trunking,
1340: internationalization support, Inter-Access Point Protocol (IAPP),
1341: IPSec SA synchronization daemon, and RAID management. There is also some
1342: discussion about future plans.
1343: <p>
1344:
1.478 grunk 1345: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1346: <a href="http://securityfocus.com/columnists/361">
1347: OpenBSD's network stack</a>,
1348: SecurityFocus, October 12, 2005</strong></font><br>
1349: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about OpenBSD's
1350: network stack, including protection against ICMP attacks, and propagation
1351: of enhancements into other BSDs and into Linux.
1352: The interview also features the other protection mechanisms in the network
1353: stack, a comparison to the network stack in Linux, and the history and
1354: current status of <a href="http://www.openbgpd.org/">OpenBGPD</a>.
1355: <p>
1356:
1.476 ian 1357: </ul>
1358:
1.470 saad 1359: <h2>September, 2005</h2>
1360: <ul>
1361:
1362: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.474 niallo 1363: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/359">
1364: Security-related innovation in Unix</a>,
1365: SecurityFocus, Sept. 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1366: An article examining the mmap-based malloc() implementation to be
1367: included in OpenBSD 3.8. The author states that <i>"it will help OpenBSD
1368: users to find bugs in software more easily, which will result in better
1369: applications for everyone"</i>. He goes on to say that <i>"the more hurdles
1370: that one has to jump through for good security, the less likely people will
1371: go through the trouble. OpenBSD allows even the most inexperienced users to
1372: take advantage of these technologies without any effort"</i>.
1373: <p>
1374:
1375: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.473 aanriot 1376: <a href="http://www.miscmag.com/articles/index.php3?page=2100">
1377: [FRENCH] Champ libre : les chantiers OpenBSD</a>
1378: Misc, number 21, Sept/Oct, 2005, p. 4-14</strong></font><br>
1379: An interesting article about OpenBSD and associated projects. Saad Kadhi
1380: and Guillaume Arcas describe useful things you can do with PF and
1381: OpenSSH, and give a nice introduction to OpenNTPD and OpenCVS. If the
1382: article is focused on the presentation, you can find some interesting
1383: technical aspects people are not always acquainted to. A few examples
1384: are shown, like a basic CARP setup, or the manner to use multiplexing
1385: with OpenSSH and even how to check an OpenSSH server's keys using DNS.
1386: <p>
1387:
1388: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.472 cloder 1389: <a href="http://online.securityfocus.com/news/11306">
1390: Big debate over small packets</a>,
1391: SecurityFocus, Sept. 7, 2005</strong></font><br>
1392: Robert Lemos discusses the ICMP denial-of-service vulnerabilities found
1393: by Fernando Gont and fixed in OpenBSD. To date, OpenBSD is the only
1394: system that has implemented all of the fixes recommended in the IETF
1395: draft.
1396: <p>
1397:
1398: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.471 saad 1399: <a href="http://www.pcexpert.fr/">
1400: [FRENCH] "Quel est le meilleur système libre pour votre
1401: ordinateur ?"</a>,
1402: PC Expert, number 156, p. 42-62</strong></font><br>
1403: Philippe Roure compares 11 Linux and *BSD operating systems, including
1404: OpenBSD 3.7, on different criteria such as security, documentation and
1405: usability. OpenBSD earned a 5/5 mark (see pages 60-61) and while a mark
1406: isn't necessarily objective, the author seems to grasp the OpenBSD
1407: project, its goals, and how good is the operating system. The article
1408: includes an interview with Saad Kadhi.
1409: <p>
1410:
1411: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.470 saad 1412: <a href="http://www.samag.com/articles/2005/0509/">
1413: Monitoring PF Firewalls for Health and Performance</a>,
1414: Sys Admin Magazine, Volume 14, Number 9, p. 37</strong></font><br>
1415: Ryan Matteson describes several utilities that can be used to monitor the
1416: health and performance of a PF firewall. Besides pfctl, the article
1417: covers pftop, fwanalog, monitoring logs with tcpdump and graphing
1418: performance data with pfstat.
1419: <p>
1420:
1421: </ul>
1422:
1.461 grunk 1423: <h2>July, 2005</h2>
1424: <ul>
1425:
1426: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.466 deraadt 1427: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5382">
1428: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part III</a>,
1.467 grunk 1429: Kerneltrap, July 6, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.466 deraadt 1430: Jeremy Andrews writes about the recent Blind ICMP attacks discovered
1431: by Fernando Gont, and the fixes done by him and OpenBSD during the
1432: 2005 Hackathon.
1.469 ian 1433: The article goes into the technical background of the
1.467 grunk 1434: attacks, mentioning blind ICMP attacks, "hard" ICMP errors, source
1.469 ian 1435: quenching, and path MTU discovery;
1436: many helpful RFCs and technical papers are linked from the explanations.
1437: This is followed by a recap of the whole ICMP story, involving Gont's
1.467 grunk 1438: struggle with other free projects, Cisco lawyers, Microsoft people,
1439: and others.<br>
1.469 ian 1440: The article concludes that OpenBSD was the first project
1.467 grunk 1441: to take Fernando Gont's findings seriously, and also the first group to
1442: be really painless to work with.
1.466 deraadt 1443: <p>
1444:
1445: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.464 grunk 1446: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/06/security_blame/">
1447: Security meltdown: who's to blame?</a>,
1.466 deraadt 1448: The Register, July 6, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.464 grunk 1449: This article talks about various groups that are frequently blamed for
1450: poor security:
1.467 grunk 1451: individuals, ISPs, companies, crackers, security mailing lists,
1.464 grunk 1452: and last but not least: OS vendors!
1.467 grunk 1453: In the last paragraph, OpenBSD's style of <i>"dumbed-down, simplified
1.464 grunk 1454: and secure systems (with a heavily audited code base)"</i> is described
1455: as <i>"one of the smartest approaches to security"</i>.
1456: <p>
1457:
1458: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.461 grunk 1459: <a href="http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/5-7-5/30084.html">
1460: Theo de Raadt on Industry and Free Software</a>,
1.466 deraadt 1461: The Epoch Times, July 5, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.463 tom 1462: In this interview, Theo talks about the inception of the OpenBSD project
1463: and its goals, as well as its impact on the commercial IT industry.
1.461 grunk 1464: He points out once more that <i>"vendors who incorporate OpenSSH have
1465: given us absolutely nothing back - not a cent"</i>.
1466: Other topics covered include the OpenBSD team, Theo's role as
1467: <i>"benevolent dictator"</i>, and the security process, which he compares
1468: to the security efforts led by other free software projects and some
1469: commercial vendors.
1470: <p>
1471:
1472: </ul>
1473:
1.454 ian 1474: <h2>June, 2005</h2>
1475: <ul>
1.468 grunk 1476:
1477: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1478: <a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-06/ns-ttc062205.php">
1479: The true cost of computer crime</a>,
1480: EurekAlert / <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/">New Scientist Magazine</a>,
1481: issue June 25, 2005</strong></font><br>
1482: This article looks at computer crime, especially the way upcoming
1483: vulnerability reports are dealt with. It also gives a short overview of the
1.469 ian 1484: institutions involved in the process (vendors, free projects, CERTs).
1.468 grunk 1485: <br>
1486: The author mentions the work of Andy Ozment, who researches vulnerability
1487: disclosure at the University of Cambridge. Using OpenBSD as a good example
1488: of how disclosure and consequent fixing of bugs helps to strengthen security,
1489: he refutes the widely spread FUD that disclosing vulnerabilities leads to
1490: more harm than good. Ozment's methodology was to examine OpenBSD's CVS logs
1.469 ian 1491: and note when fixes were published; his research shows that
1.468 grunk 1492: <i>"the number of vulnerabilities decreases as a result of disclosure"</i>.
1493: <p>
1494:
1.454 ian 1495: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.458 niallo 1496: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2005/0704/071.html">
1497: Free Bird</a>,
1498: Forbes, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1499: <b>(Registration required)</b> A second Forbes article about OpenBSD, more
1500: focused on the project itself this time. It contains good description of the
1501: history of OpenBSD along with its prime motivations. Mention is made of the
1502: DARPA grant and the annual hackathon. Theo's motto "shut up and hack" finally
1503: becomes famous in this piece and there are some other very insightful quotes
1504: such as "All I care about is making high-quality code. If I had to work at a
1505: regular job, it would drive me nuts". This is certainly an astute and perceptive
1506: article, well worth reading. Do note that the big picture of Theo's machine
1507: room will only be available in the print edition.
1508: <p>
1.459 deraadt 1509:
1.458 niallo 1510: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.456 niallo 1511: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/technology/2005/06/16/linux-bsd-unix-cz_dl_0616theo.html">
1512: Is Linux For Losers?</a>,
1513: Forbes, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1514: An interesting article, if somewhat polemic in tone, which raises questions
1515: about the quality of Linux code compared to OpenBSD. There is also some short
1516: discussion of the OpenBSD development model and focus (push for quality above
1517: everything else) including good quotes from Theo. It seems that the need for
1518: high quality software is beginning to be recognised by the mainstream.
1519: <p>
1.457 deraadt 1520:
1.456 niallo 1521: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1522: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/06/09/2132233.shtml?tid=152&tid=8&tid=2">
1.455 ian 1523: BSD cognoscenti on Linux</a>,
1524: NewsForge, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1525: NewsForge talks with Theo de Raadt and NetBSD's Christos Zoulas about the
1526: similarities and differences between the Linux kernel and the BSD
1527: operating systems. The questions asked were similar to those asked
1528: of Linus Torvalds in a <a
1.462 grunk 1529: href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/06/09/2128249&tid=2">previous
1.455 ian 1530: interview.</a>
1531: <p>
1532:
1533: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.454 ian 1534: <a href="http://www.tuxjournal.net/intervista3-en.html">
1535: A good morning with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1536: Tux Journal, June 2, 2005</strong></font><br>
1537: Brief but wide-ranging interview with Theo in which our leader
1538: opines about the good things in 3.7: "The list of new developments
1539: is impressive, but in my view not nearly as impressive as the small
1540: little details that continue to be fixed during each development
1541: cycle." And modestly credits all the developers for the project's
1542: continuing success, attributing it to "The passion of the developers,
1543: and the wide experience they bring into their development efforts.
1544: By amazing coincidence, our users typically have the same needs as we do."
1545: Manages to sidestep getting drawn into comparisons with Linux, e.g.,
1546: when asked if he likes it/why/why not, deftly replies
1547: "I have never used it."
1548: <p>
1549:
1550: </ul>
1551:
1.441 deraadt 1552: <h2>May, 2005</h2>
1553: <ul>
1554: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.451 cloder 1555: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5190">
1556: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part II</a>,
1557: Kerneltrap, May 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1558: In the second installment of Kerneltrap's Hackathon 2005 feature, Jeremy
1559: Andrews speaks with the pf developers at length about their plans for
1560: future enhancements.
1561: <p>
1562:
1563: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.450 deraadt 1564: <a href="http://www.ctv.ca">
1.448 deraadt 1565: TV coverage: OpenBSD hackathon</a>,
1566: CTV/CFCN, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
1567: A TV spot done a Canadian national TV station about the Calgary
1568: hackathon this year, with 60 developers.<br>
1569: North America mirror:
1570: <ul>
1.452 marco 1571: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd-intro.avi">Intro</a>
1.449 jcs 1572: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd1.avi">spot 1</a><br>
1573: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd2.avi">spot 2</a>
1.448 deraadt 1574: </ul>
1575: European mirror:
1576: <ul>
1.452 marco 1577: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd-intro.avi">Intro</a>
1.448 deraadt 1578: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd1.avi">spot 1</a>
1579: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd2.avi">spot 2</a><br>
1580: </ul>
1581: <p>
1582:
1583: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.451 cloder 1584: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5186">
1585: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part I</a>,
1586: Kerneltrap, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
1587: Jeremy Andrews of KernelTrap does a good job of describing what it's like
1588: to be at the Hackathon in Part I of KernelTrap's Hackathon feature. Several
1589: developers are interviewed in detail about what they are working on.
1590: <p>
1591:
1592: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.472 cloder 1593: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5184">
1594: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005: Day 6?</a>,
1595: Kerneltrap, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
1596: Kjell Wooding describes a typical day at the Hackathon in this entertaining
1597: first-hand account.
1598: <p>
1599:
1600: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.447 cloder 1601: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/05/20/1426216.shtml?tid=8">
1602: Review: OpenBSD 3.7</a>,
1603: NewsForge.com, May 20, 2005</strong></font><br>
1604: "OpenBSD is not only highly polished and easy to
1605: configure because of its documentation, it's also totally free-as-in-rights.
1606: With an obsession with security, freedom of source code, and quality of
1607: programming technique, OpenBSD 3.7 continues the legacy established by
1608: its previous releases," writes Jem Matzan in this nice, small review.
1609: <p>
1610:
1611: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.446 cloder 1612: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/05/19/openbsd_3_7.html">
1613: OpenBSD 3.7: The Wizard of OS</a>,
1614: ONLamp.com, May 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
1615: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about the
1616: new features in OpenBSD 3.7, including new wireless chipsets, new
1617: spam-fighting features, zaurus, pf improvements, propolice, and
1618: many other things. A good overview of what's new in this release,
1619: plus some interesting comments about future direction.
1620: <p>
1621:
1622: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.444 niallo 1623: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/software/openbsd-3.7-released.html">
1.445 niallo 1624: Next incarnation of OpenBSD released</a>,
1.444 niallo 1625: Ping Wales, May 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
1626: "OpenBSD is often unjustly overlooked as a free UNIX-like system in favour of
1627: the more-hyped Linux. While it receives a lot less publicity than other
1628: operating systems, this is not due to lack of technical merit." says David
1629: Chisnall, in what is a clear and concise overview of the new features
1630: in 3.7 and indeed the project as a whole.
1631: <p>
1632:
1633: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1634: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5114">
1.445 niallo 1635: 2005 Calgary Hackathon, KernelTrap Coverage</a>,
1.444 niallo 1636: Kerneltrap, May 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1637: A great article about the annual OpenBSD Hackathon, detailing how the event
1638: functions, work done at previous Hackathons and features which may come out
1639: of this one. Includes many relevant quotes from developers themselves, and of
1640: course information about the legendary Hackathon BBQ!
1641: <p>
1642:
1643: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.442 deraadt 1644: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=9658/sam0505e/">
1645: "Failover Firewalls with OpenBSD and CARP"</a>,
1646: Sys Admin Magazine, Volume 14, Number 5, p. 33
1.441 deraadt 1647: </strong></font><br>
1648: Jason Dixon discusses the history of the CARP and pfsync protocols
1649: and demonstrates using them to create redundant stateful firewalls
1650: with OpenBSD.
1651: </ul>
1652:
1.436 henning 1653: <h2>April, 2005</h2>
1654: <ul>
1655: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.440 ian 1656: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39020384,39195801,00.htm">
1657: Security guru wants access to bug databases</a>,
1658: ZDNet UK, April 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
1659: Ingrid Marson reports on Cambridge professor Ross Anderson's call for analysis of
1660: software maintenance records to determine whether open source code is more secure
1661: than closed source, as we have long contended.
1662: "One of Anderson's research students, Andy Ozment, has already done
1663: research using empirical data on bugs found in the open source
1664: operating system OpenBSD between 1997 and 2000. This research found
1665: that finding and fixing bugs results in a more secure product..."
1666: Just as the OpenBSD project has been saying for years.
1667: <p>
1668: This article can also be found online as
1669: <a href="http://uk.builder.com/manage/project/0,39026588,39244080,00.htm">Academic
1670: calls for better bug tracking</a> (uk.builder.com).
1671: <p>
1672:
1673: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.439 espie 1674: [FRENCH] "PC Expert", number 152, p. 58
1675: </strong></font><br>
1676: Very short interview of Marc Espie about OpenBSD as a free OS focusing
1677: on security, part of a larger dossier «les secrets des hackers».
1678: <p>
1679:
1680: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.436 henning 1681: [GERMAN] "Doppelwacht", iX 5/2005, p. 150.
1682: </strong></font><br>
1683: Stephan Tesch gives an introduction to CARP and using a pair of
1684: OpenBSD boxes as Firewalls in High Availibility scenarios. He goes
1.438 martin 1685: on explaining CARP and pfsync protocols, and does not forget to cover
1.436 henning 1686: the issues we had with IETF.
1687: </ul>
1688:
1.431 ian 1689: <h2>March, 2005</h2>
1690: <ul>
1691: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.435 reyk 1692: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/4818">
1693: OpenBSD's "Out of the Box" Wireless Support</a>,
1694: Kerneltrap, March 8, 2005</strong></font><br>
1695: This article is about the upcoming wireless support in OpenBSD 3.7 and
1696: the outcome of the work to open wireless chipsets. Jeremy Andrews
1697: talked with Theo de Raadt and the developers Damien Bergamini and Reyk
1698: Floeter who did some efforts to implement free and functional drivers.
1699: <p>
1700:
1701: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.431 ian 1702: <a href="http://theage.com.au/articles/2005/03/01/1109546842718.html">
1703: OpenBSD to support more wireless chipsets</a>,
1704: The Age, March 1, 2005</strong></font><br>
1705: "The forthcoming 3.7 release of the OpenBSD operating system has
1706: added support for five more wireless chipsets, according to
1707: OpenBSD project founder Theo de Raadt...
1.432 ian 1708: OpenBSD 3.7 will also have have new drivers for Intel wireless
1.431 ian 1709: parts that do not work without the non-redistributable firmware,"
1710: namely the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 IEEE 802.11B
1711: and 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG IEEE 802.11A/B/G wireless network adapters.
1712: Mentions OpenBSD's activism in getting vendors to release chip specs.
1713: Referring to vendors that still refuse to play ball with open source
1714: projects, quotes Damien Miller as saying "Given the number of
1715: appliance devices that are built on free OSs, I think that the
1716: recalcitrant vendors are missing an important boat."
1717:
1718: </ul>
1719:
1.427 matthieu 1720: <h2>February, 2005</h2>
1721: <ul>
1722:
1723: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.428 david 1724: <a href="http://www.fsf.org/news/fsaward2004.html">
1725: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
1726: FSF, February 26, 2005</strong></font><br>
1727: The Free Software Foundation awarded Theo de Raadt their "2004 Free Software
1728: Award" for his unwavering commitment to free software. Most recently he has
1729: been fighting hardware manufacturers for free redistribution of wireless card
1730: firmware.
1.434 ian 1731: Similar articles can be found online at:
1732: <ul>
1733: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1734: <a href="http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=419">
1735: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
1736: Tectonic.za, March 3, 2005</strong></font><br>
1737: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1738: <a href="http://www.osdir.com/Article4362.phtml">
1739: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
1740: OSDir, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1741: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1742: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/Breaking/De-Raadt-gets-free-software-award/2005/02/28/1109546758523.html?oneclick=true">
1743: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
1744: The Age, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1745: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1746: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/05/02/27/1413255.shtml?tid=99&tid=7">
1.434 ian 1747: Theo de Raadt gets 2004 FSF Award</a>,
1748: Slashdot, February 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
1749: </ul>
1.427 matthieu 1750: </ul>
1751:
1.426 ian 1752: <h2>January, 2005</h2>
1753: <ul>
1754:
1755: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1756: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363731">
1757: Systrace in OpenBSD</a>,
1758: informit.com, January 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1759: This article talks about our systrace
1.462 grunk 1760: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=systrace&sektion=1">systrace(1)</a>
1.426 ian 1761: mechanism: what it is and why and
1762: how to use it, with examples.
1763: Another excerpt from the book
1764: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
1765: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
1766: <p>
1767:
1768: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1769: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363732">
1770: Overview of OpenBSD</a>,
1771: informit.com, January 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
1772: "OpenBSD is one of the most secure and well-designed operating
1773: systems available today. It has its roots in countless hours of
1774: research and development based on some of the best UNIX flavors of
1775: the past, and it boasts all the features of modern operating systems.
1776: The OS is widely considered one of the most secure general-purpose
1777: operating systems available today and it supports many key parts
1778: of the global Internet infrastructure..."
1779: This article is a sample chapter from
1780: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
1781: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
1782: <p>
1.443 ian 1783:
1784: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1785: <a href="http://www.pcplus.co.uk/tutorials/default.asp?pagetypeid=2&articleid=34628&subsectionid=784">
1.443 ian 1786: OpenBSD operating system</a>,
1787: PCPlus.co.uk, January, 2005</strong></font><br>
1788: Paul Grosse gives a brief tutorial on installing OpenBSD on i386 for people
1789: moving in a Windows->Linux direction, encouraging them to go a bit further for security.
1790: "While Linux out-scores Windows substantially (or completely) on [security as well as many other
1791: issues], it's still possible to use a more secure operating system on the PC... OpenBSD."
1792: Gives a brief but understandable walkthrough on the installation process, right up to
1793: downloading and installing the third-party packages, and
1794: ends with a sidebar on security.
1795: <p>
1.426 ian 1796: </ul>
1797:
1.424 ian 1798: <h2>December, 2004</h2>
1799: <ul>
1800:
1801: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.425 ian 1802: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/01/2329229">
1803: What are the real vulnerabilities of Linux?</a>
1804: NewsForge.com, December 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1805: Several security consultants were asked about "the real vulnerabilities of
1806: Linux". Cybersoure CEO Con Symaris seems to get it better than the rest:
1807: "One needs to approach security as a prime requirement and motivator,
1808: much as the OpenBSD team do," Zymaris said... "The Linux
1809: community mindset is different. Linux development is dynamic and
1810: races ahead towards more and broader functionality, drawing a
1811: multitude of interested parties in to make interesting extensions
1812: and adaptations at a rapid rate."
1813: <p>
1814: "In order to do security the BSD way, however, much more effort
1815: needs to be spent auditing code for holes, which is much less sexy,
1816: and attracts a different set of coders," Zymaris added.
1817: <p>
1818:
1819: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.424 ian 1820: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/281">
1821: Closed Source Hardware</a>
1822: Security Focus, December 1, 2004</strong></font><br>
1823: Symantec Threat Analyst Jason Miller analyzes the potential security threats
1824: when hardware vendors won't provide device documentation and
1825: instead provide "binary only" driver code for inclusion in open source
1826: operating systems.
1827: Miller is an open-source fan who says he uses a variety of systems, including
1828: OpenBSD on his firewall.
1829: Of the recent trend to closed-source binary drivers for open-source
1830: systems, he writes:
1831: <blockquote>
1832: The closed-source component required to support this hardware is
1833: completely independent of the associated operating system, and as
1834: such, is also independent of the engineering team, security team,
1835: auditing process, and quality control procedures normally related
1836: to the operating system...
1.582 ! grunk 1837: <br>
1.424 ian 1838: What's possibly even more disturbing is that we're talking about
1839: a chunk of code in the operating system, running with the highest
1840: possible level of privilege (the kernel), which is supplied by a
1841: third-party vendor. This code could do anything once loaded, including
1842: leaking active WEP keys, gathering usage statistics, sniffing and
1843: disclosing traffic, and it could even introduce a subtle backdoor
1844: into the operating system itself (much the same as any device driver
1845: in a closed source operating system).
1846: <br/>
1847: [A]lthough some of these scenarios are a
1848: little far-fetched, the possibility for them to exist is there...
1849: Ultimately it becomes an issue of trust, which is a cornerstone of
1850: good security: whom do you trust, and how much do you trust them?
1851: </blockquote>
1852: <p>And he comments that trust "seems to be a one-way street": vendors
1853: demand that you trust them, but they won't trust you to know how
1854: their hardware and software operates.
1855: This lack of trust is one reason why OpenBSD has recently completed
1856: reverse-engineering the
1.462 grunk 1857: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath&apropos=0&sektion=4">
1.424 ian 1858: Atheros wireless chipset driver</a>
1859: that was originally provided as a binary insert.
1860: <p>
1861: </ul>
1862:
1.417 pvalchev 1863: <h2>November, 2004</h2>
1864: <ul>
1.421 ian 1865:
1.417 pvalchev 1866: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.422 ian 1867: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1730775,00.asp">
1868: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 Widens Its Scope</a>
1869: eWEEK, November 22, 2004</strong></font><br>
1870: Jason Brooks reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and likes the changes it brings,
1871: including the multi-processing support which, he notes,
1872: "will be even more important as multicore processors--which occupy space
1873: on the road maps of Intel, AMD, Sun Microsystems Inc. and others--
1874: become more prevalent." Comments favorably on OpenNTPD
1875: ("the three-line configuration file we needed to modify ... on OpenBSD was
1876: much simpler to deal with than the equivalent configuration file on
1877: the Linux systems we've tested").
1.423 ian 1878: Overall a favorable review of some of the new stuff in 3.6.
1.422 ian 1879: <p>
1880: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.420 otto 1881: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/11/16/1544210">
1882: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement</a>
1883: NewsForge, November 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
1884: Jem Matzan reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and is impressed by the professional
1885: way OpenBSD is developed and released:
1886: "... it's released on time with few problems and it does exactly what
1887: it claims to do".
1888: <p>
1889:
1890: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.571 miod 1891: <a href="http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=109994542424009&w=2">
1.421 ian 1892: Intel says no to permitting firmware redistribution</a>
1893: misc@, November 8, 2004</strong></font><br>
1894: Theo recounts the struggle to get Intel to provide redistributable
1895: versions of the firmware for their wireless chipsets, and their
1.423 ian 1896: ultimate refusal to allow OpenBSD to redistribute the chipsets' firmware.
1.421 ian 1897: Includes a caveat about Intel's disingenuous "FAQ", typical of many
1898: corporate FAQs that answer questions nobody actually thought
1899: to ask, and don't truthfully answer the questions you want hard answers to.
1900: At the end Theo names the names (and their emails) that need to be contacted
1901: by large numbers of end-users and developers if Intel is to change
1902: (yes, this is a hint).
1903: Of interest is that this posting to one of our mailing lists was
1904: picked up on the
1905: <a href="http://www.screamingelectron.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1923">Screaming
1906: Electron Forum</a> and from there reported on
1.462 grunk 1907: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/22/1249249&from=rss">
1.421 ian 1908: SlashDot</a>, where it is accompanied by a link to SlashDot's paper
1909: on effective advocacy (be firm, but also be polite).
1910: <p>
1911:
1912: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.417 pvalchev 1913: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/4118">
1914: OpenBSD Works To Open Wireless Chipsets</a>
1915: Kerneltrap, November 2, 2004</strong></font><br>
1916: A good summary of the battle on the wireless firmware front,
1917: including an interview with Theo de Raadt that answers
1918: questions about the significance and rationale behind
1919: the current efforts.
1920: <p>
1921: </ul>
1922:
1.407 henning 1923: <h2>October, 2004</h2>
1924: <ul>
1925: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.416 ian 1926: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/29/1098992287663.html">
1927: Activism Pays Off for OpenBSD</a>,
1928: The Age, October 29, 2004</strong></font><br>
1929: Favorable report on the project's continuing efforts to get hardware
1930: vendors to release documentation and/or binary code under reasonable
1931: conditions so that we can include drivers in the system.
1932: Names companies that have been naughty and nice, and warns the non-responsive
1933: companies that the activism will continue (registration required).
1934: <p>
1935:
1936: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.415 ian 1937: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/10/28/openbsd_3_6.html">
1938: OpenBSD 3.6 Live</a>,
1939: ONLamp.com, October 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
1940: "There is a mounting excitement for the upcoming OpenBSD 3.6 release,
1941: as it is the first release that supports multiprocessor systems."
1942: So saying, Federico Biancuzzi interviewed several OpenBSD
1943: developers to discuss their current contributions and future plans.
1944: Provides interesting social notes, and a good overview of a lot
1945: of the important changes in 3.6.
1.462 grunk 1946: <p>
1.415 ian 1947:
1948: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1949: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/10/26/itfeature/9170256&sec=itfeature">
1.414 ian 1950: Integer overflows - the next big threat</a>,
1951: The Malaysia Star - TechCentral, October 26, 2004</strong></font><br>
1952: Interview with Theo after HITBSecConf 2004.
1953: "The next big problem the IT security community faces is integer
1954: overflow attacks... because
1955: the community currently can't see a clear method to circumvent future
1956: vulnerabilities" that might arise from integer overflows...
1957: Talks about the security improvements in OpenBSD such as stackguard
1958: and propolice.
1959: Nice quote on the art and science of programming:
1960: "Technology is getting sloppier. Sometimes art is taken too far
1961: and that's when the science falls apart."
1962: <p>
1963:
1964: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.412 ian 1965: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/18/1097951615940.html">
1966: Which platform will save you from the nasties?</a>,
1967: The Age, October 19, 2004</strong></font><br>
1968: Starts with the question:
1969: <blockquote>
1970: "... which is more secure - Windows or Linux?
1971: <br/>
1972: A snide answer is OpenBSD, which has an exemplary record with respect to
1973: security. But let's stick to the two most broadly used platforms in IT today.
1974: <br/>
1975: Microsoft's hired analysts claim that Windows is more secure than Linux.
1976: Should we believe them?"
1977: </blockquote>
1978: Not surprisingly, the answer is in the negative.
1979: Good discussion on why Microsoft's OS is still not really secure.
1980: Ends with the conclusion that, if you must use MS-Windows, do so,
1981: but have another computer running an OS "which has a lower-risk profile"
1982: for your mail, web and other online activities.
1983: That could be OpenBSD (registration required).
1984: <p>
1985:
1986: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.411 nick 1987: <a href="http://www.onlypunjab.com/fullstory904-insight-Simple+Simon-status-25-newsID-5131.html">
1988: Simple Simon</a>,
1989: Only Punjab Business News, October 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
1990: Report on Lok Technologies and its founder Simon Lok, a 26-year-old with three
1991: Masters degrees and most of a PhD. Lok's current product is a box for
1992: Wireless ISPs (WISPs) that includes registration, administration,
1993: routing/firewall, and more.
1994: Of course the "Airlok" is based on OpenBSD.
1995: J. Russ Grant, technical manager at American Airlines, likes the Airlok:
1996: <blockquote>because it takes a "tough love" approach; when it spots a virus
1997: on a computer, it automatically blocks that machine, "blackholing" the user,
1998: and notifies Grant... "The Airlok has the best firewall I have ever seen,"
1999: says Grant, who believes the product could even change the Web itself.
2000: "Imagine if Comcast or other ISPs started using Airloks.
2001: If someone got a virus, the system would just shut that person down
2002: before it could spread. This could make hackers obsolete."
2003: </blockquote>
2004: Maybe a bit of hyperbole, but the product does look good, and serves
2005: as an example of what you can do with OpenBSD as a base.
2006: <p>
2007:
2008: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.408 nick 2009: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/07/1097089476287.html">
2010: Staying on the Cutting Edge</a>,
1.409 saad 2011: The Age, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1.410 nick 2012: Fascinating interview with Theo, not just about OpenBSD but
1.408 nick 2013: how he got started in computers and came to know and love BSD, and how the
2014: project got started. "Despite the impression generally given out
2015: that the founder of the OpenBSD project is a person who is inclined
1.409 saad 2016: to be anti-social, I find him to be nothing but warm and friendly...".
1.408 nick 2017: Ends with some interesting dark comments about the lack of support
2018: for OpenBSD from hardware vendors, and how the project gets so much done
2019: in spite of it
2020: (registration required, but worth it).
2021: <p>
2022:
2023: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2024: <a href="http://communique.portland.or.us/04/10/as_seen_in_the_power_of_many.html">
2025: As seen in <i>The Power of Many</i></a>,
2026: Portland Communique, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
2027: The <i>Portland Communique</i> is a small, localized e-zine with an
2028: average readership of about 6,000 per month in the Portland, Oregon area.
2029: <i>Communique</i>'s publisher is cited in
2030: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0782143466/qid=1097194721">The
1.409 saad 2031: Power of Many</a>,
1.408 nick 2032: <a href="http://x-pollen.com/many/wiki/newpom.php/ChristianCrumlish">Christian
2033: Crumlish</a>'s book about the web, saying
2034: "On the technical end, Communique runs via Movable Type on an OpenBSD
2035: box in my apartment, served over a DSL line."
2036: <p>
2037:
2038: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 2039: <a href="http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1011476,00.html">
2040: Schneier: Security outsourcing widespread by 2010</a>,
2041: SearchSecurity, October 5, 2004</strong></font><br>
2042: Brief interview with Bruce Schneier of
2043: <a href="http://schneier.com/crypto-gram.html">Crypto-Gram</a> fame,
2044: in which he mentions OpenBSD favorably yet again:
2045: <blockquote>
2046: There's lots of open-source software out there that no one has analyzed
2047: and is no more secure than all the closed-source products that no one has
2048: analyzed. But then there are things like Linux, Apache or OpenBSD that get
2049: a lot of analysis.
2050: When open-source code is properly analyzed, there's nothing better.
2051: </blockquote>
2052: <p>
2053: </ul>
2054:
1.400 marco 2055: <h2>September, 2004</h2>
2056: <ul>
2057: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 2058: <a href="http://www.serverwatch.com/sreviews/article.php/3415651">
2059: Protecting the Perimeter With OpenBSD</a>,
2060: ServerWatch, September 30, 2004</strong></font><br>
2061: Reasonably positive review of OpenBSD 3.5 in the context of other
2062: UNIX-like systems.
2063: Favorite line: "In the Unix-like family, OpenBSD is akin to the crazy,
2064: paranoid uncle. Not necessarily in a bad way."
2065: <p>
2066: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.419 ian 2067: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/9/28/itfeature/8955042&sec=itfeature">
2068: Going further to stop hackers</a>
1.406 nick 2069: The Star TechCentral. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
2070: An article sprinkled with quotations from our globetrotting Theo de
2071: Raadt as he prepares for his talk at the Kuala Lumpur Hack-In-The-Box
2072: Security Conference (HITBSecConf2004).
2073: At one point, the article states:
2074: <blockquote>
2075: Just as brilliant scientists are capable of making spelling mistakes,
2076: brilliant coders can also make fatal mistakes in their software
2077: perhaps because writing good software is both a science and an art.
2078: </blockquote>
2079: And then quotes Theo as saying:
2080: <blockquote>
2081: "Also, more people in the coding community are writing code, while
2082: fewer are reading or auditing code."
2083: </blockquote>
2084: <p>
2085: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2086: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/28/1096137217294.html">OpenSSH
2087: marks its fifth birthday</a>
2088: The Age. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
2089: Not only is OpenSSH now five years old, but it now commands an
2090: <a href="openssh/usage/index.html">88% market share</a>. Article
2091: includes a brief history of the OpenSSH project (registration
2092: required).
2093: <p>
2094: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.404 jolan 2095: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1498222899;fp;16;fpid;0">
2096: OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt talks software security</a>,
2097: Computerworld. September 10, 2004
2098: </strong></font><br>
2099: An interview with Theo de Raadt touching on the source of security problems,
2100: prevention techniques, and what OS vendors are doing wrong.
2101: <p>
2102: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.402 marco 2103: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39158189,00.htm">
2104: OpenBSD: Maintaining the quality mindset</a>,
1.403 saad 2105: ZDNet Australia. September 3, 2004
1.402 marco 2106: </strong></font><br>
2107: Interview with Theo de Raadt about quality control in OpenBSD. This article also talks about the release cycle of OpenBSD.
2108: <p>
2109: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.400 marco 2110: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=F7679726-EAD5-478B-AF35-7456929201D0">
2111: SMP-capable OpenBSD 3.6 set for November</a>,
1.403 saad 2112: Computer Business Review Online. September 2, 2004
1.400 marco 2113: </strong></font><br>
1.401 saad 2114: Very positive article that highlights things as OpenBSD ships SMP capable kernel on amd64 6 months ahead of SUN and other vendors. It also discusses the new possibilities to deploy OpenBSD in a bigger iron playground.
1.400 marco 2115: <p>
2116: </ul>
2117:
1.396 henning 2118: <h2>July, 2004</h2>
2119: <ul>
2120: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.418 ian 2121: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=9233/ur0407d/">
2122: Review: Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
2123: Unix Review, July, 2004
2124: </strong></font><br>
2125: UNIX luminary Peter Salus reviews the book
2126: <i>Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</i> by
1.462 grunk 2127: Brandon Palmer & Jose Nazario.
1.418 ian 2128: "I view OpenBSD as the most secure operating system available. It
2129: certainly has far fewer holes than Windows, and fewer than any
2130: flavor of Linux I've looked at...
2131: Most of the chapters (e.g., XWindow, DNS, etc.) are very fine; the
2132: emphasis on security is thorough and well-instantiated. The frequent
2133: code examples are appropriate and enlightening. On an information
2134: level, Palmer and Nazario are very good."
2135: His only criticisms have to do with production issues: incomplete copy editing
2136: by the publisher leading to un-explained acronyms, poor cross-referencing
2137: and even spelling/wording errors.
2138: Overall he seems to like the book (and the operating system, of course).
2139: <p>
2140: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 2141: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/07/20/180234&tid=8&tid=132">
1.398 henning 2142: Review: OpenBSD 3.5</a>,
2143: NewsForge, July 22, 2004
2144: </strong></font><br>
2145: Jem Matzan "really enjoyed using OpenBSD 3.5 for the review".
2146: <p>
2147: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 2148: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/04/07/17/1814245.shtml?tid=122&tid=172&tid=130">
1.399 henning 2149: OpenBSD Project Releases OpenNTPD</a>,
2150: Slashdot, July 17, 2004
2151: </strong></font><br>
2152: Announcing OpenNTPD, including a quick review.
2153: <p>
2154: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.397 otto 2155: <a href="http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=review-openbsd">
2156: OpenBSD - For Your Eyes Only</a>,
2157: DistroWatch, July 7, 2004
2158: </strong></font><br>
2159: Robert Storey reviews OpenBSD 3.5, concluding:
2160: "The world owes a debt of gratitude to Theo and his crew for creating OpenBSD."
2161: <p>
2162: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.396 henning 2163: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.genua.de/news/presseinfo/presse/pi_openbsd_html">
2164: GeNUA moves to OpenBSD</a></strong></font><br>
2165: German security company GeNUA moves its firewall product line
2166: "GeNUgate" from BSD/OS to OpenBSD.
2167: <p>
2168: </ul>
2169:
1.405 jolan 2170: <h2>June, 2004</h2>
2171: <ul>
1.545 tom 2172: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 2173: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/06/04/142238.shtml">
1.466 deraadt 2174: The Gift Economy and Free Software</a>, NewsForge, June 5, 2004</strong></font>
1.405 jolan 2175: <br>Jem Matzan explores the "gift economy" that has become more prevalent.
2176: Contains snippets from Theo de Raadt about why OpenBSD exists and some
2177: details on how funds are dispersed.
2178: <p>
2179: </ul>
2180:
1.393 david 2181: <h2>May, 2004</h2>
2182: <ul>
2183: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.395 ian 2184: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7152">
2185: OpenBSD 3.4/3.5 for SPARC64 Addendum</a>,
2186: OSNews.com, May 26, 2004
2187: </strong></font><br>
2188: Tony Bourke updates his April 29 piece (see below) for 3.5. After overcoming some
2189: issues in getting MySQL going using ports and packages, he runs performance measurements,
2190: and finds OpenBSD faster than FreeBSD in several tests, albeit slower
2191: on inserting large number of SQL records.
2192: Despite various grumblings about the system (some of which are misunderstandings),
2193: he does conclude that it is "a useful system and would make a good
2194: development system in addition to a great firewall/router."
2195: <p>
2196:
2197: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 2198: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/241">
2199: Secure by Default</a>,
2200: SecurityFocus, May 13, 2004
2201: </strong></font><br>
2202: Jason Miller of SecurityFocus showers praise upon OpenBSD's policy of
2203: "Secure by Default" and recommends that other vendors adopt this mentality.
2204: <p>
2205:
2206: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2207: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3085">
2208: OpenBSD: Cisco Applies For Patents To Secured TCP</a>,
2209: KernelTrap, May 11, 2004
2210: </strong></font><br>
2211: Before Jeremy even had a chance to post part II, he speaks again with
2212: Theo de Raadt about the trappings of the IETF, patents and Cisco. The
2213: history seen in the OpenBSD's development of CARP to counter VRRP is
2214: apparently repeating itself. The difference being, this time OpenBSD
2215: already had existing solutions to TCP stack implementation weaknesses
2216: prior to a proprietary vendor attempting to patent such a fix.
2217: <p>
2218:
2219: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2220: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3072">
2221: Feature: Understanding TCP Reset Attacks, Part I</a>,
2222: KernelTrap, May 10, 2004
2223: </strong></font><br>
2224: Using OpenBSD and discussions with Theo de Raadt as a reference point,
2225: Jeremy Andrews of kerneltrap.org begins a two part series discussing the
2226: technical details behind TCP reset attacks.
2227: <p>
2228:
2229: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2230: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/05/06/pf_developers.html">
2231: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview, Part 2</a>,
2232: ONLamp.com, May 6, 2004
2233: </strong></font><br>
2234: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com concludes his interview with various
2235: OpenBSD developers discussing their work on PF and future goals.
2236: <p>
2237: </ul>
2238:
1.388 mcbride 2239: <h2>April, 2004</h2>
2240: <ul>
1.394 jolan 2241:
2242: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2243: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6892">
2244: OpenBSD 3.4 SPARC64 Edition</a>,
2245: OSNews.com, April 29, 2004
2246: </strong></font><br>
2247: Tony Bourke explores using OpenBSD on his Sun Ultra 5 while comparing and
2248: constrasting performance and features that exist on other operating systems
2249: available for sparc64.
2250: <p>
2251:
1.390 beck 2252: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 2253: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/29/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">
2254: Diskless, Low-Form-Factor OpenBSD Systems</a>,
2255: ONLamp.com, April 29, 2004
2256: </strong></font><br>
2257: Michael Lucas continues his series of articles on OpenBSD and <a
2258: href="http://www.soekris.com">Soekris</a> devices. This time
2259: describing how to make use of tftpd, dhcpd, rarpd and NFS to accomplish
2260: booting OpenBSD without using a local disk.
2261: <p>
2262:
2263: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.391 ian 2264: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/04/13/1842214.shtml">
2265: CARP your way to high availability</a>,
1.392 david 2266: NewsForge, April 16, 2004
1.391 ian 2267: </strong></font><br>
2268: This write-up of OpenBSD's new Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP)
2269: covers its origins in Cisco's patent nonsense, then moves on to what
2270: it does: CARP provides sharing
2271: of an IP address among several hosts on the same network to provide
2272: failover and limited load balancing. Gives enough technical
2273: detail to get you started using it.
2274: Quote: "Some of you with highly redundant and fault-tolerant hardware
2275: may think CARP won't help you. Think again...
2276: think of how nice it would be to patch and reboot during normal
2277: business hours instead of at 2 a.m. Think about not having to balance
2278: doing system upgrades against taking an entire building offline.
2279: Think about hot-testing new technologies while knowing that, if
2280: things just don't work out, your old solution is simply a halt away."
1.392 david 2281: <p>
1.391 ian 2282:
2283: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.390 beck 2284: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/15/pf_developers.html">
1.392 david 2285: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview</a>,
2286: ONLamp.com, April 15, 2004
1.390 beck 2287: </strong></font><br>
2288: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com interviews Daniel Hartmeier, Henning Brauer,
1.392 david 2289: Mike Frantzen, Cedric Berger, Ryan McBride, and Can Erkin Acar about PF, their
1.390 beck 2290: work with it, and what's new and cool in OpenBSD 3.5.
1.392 david 2291: <p>
1.388 mcbride 2292:
2293: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2294: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/2873">
2295: Interview with Ryan McBride</a>,
1.392 david 2296: KernelTrap, April 7, 2004
1.388 mcbride 2297: </strong></font><br>
2298: In this interview conducted by Jeremy Andrews, Ryan McBride discusses
2299: the new CARP and pfsync protocols which allow for firewall failover,
2300: and covers the ongoing struggle with the IETF for truly open standards
2301: unencumbered by patents.
2302: <p>
2303: </ul>
2304:
1.378 henning 2305: <h2>March, 2004</h2>
2306: <ul>
1.384 jose 2307:
2308: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.386 ian 2309: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/07/intel_64bit/">
2310: Intel cribbed x86-64 tech 'from AMD documents'</a>,
2311: The Register, April 7th, 2004.
2312: </strong></font><br>
2313: Quotes Tom Halfhill in <em>Microprocessor Reports</em> as saying that
2314: Intel developed its 64-bit extensions to the 32-bit x86 instruction set by
2315: "reading AMD's pre-release documentation".
2316: After detailed comparison of AMD's 64-bit products and Intel's clone of them,
2317: "In every case," Halfhill concludes, "we found Intel had patterned its 64-bit x86 architecture after AMD64 in almost every detail."
2318: Quotes the OpenBSD team as saying
2319: "We've tested the Intel x86 64-bit stuff, and it works for OpenBSD.
2320: But it's nasty, because they left out the NX (non-executable) bit
2321: in the page tables."
2322: Maybe there was a page missing from Intel's photocopy of AMD's documentation.
2323: <p>
2324:
2325: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 2326: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/currentnews/7503585eb6e9543f80256e670038578b">Microsoft Preparing to Release Code to Open Source</a>,
2327: Computer Business Review Online, March 30, 2004.
2328: </strong></font><br>
2329: An article about how Microsoft is looking to release portions of their
2330: non-core code (non-OS portions) under their "Shared Source" license. Some
2331: discussion of how Microsoft has been shipping free software in their
2332: Unix Services for Windows product, which includes OpenBSD source code.
1.392 david 2333: <p>
1.384 jose 2334:
1.378 henning 2335: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 2336: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/18/marc_espie.html">
2337: An Interview with OpenBSD's Marc Espie</a>,
1.381 ian 2338: ONLamp.com, March 18, 2004.
2339: </strong></font><br>
2340: A really good and colorful interview with Marc Espie. The
2341: interviewer gets Marc to list his areas of
2342: contributions to the project, but soon it gets around to
2343: methodology, how we differ from other open source OS projects
2344: (quote:
2345: "Evolve the OS, not Revolutionize it. This is in violent contrast to Linux."),
2346: how each release of gcc is slower than the previous, the ubiquitous
1.382 ian 2347: licensing wars (and the GPL'd stuff we've replaced by BSD-licensed),
1.381 ian 2348: future plans, and so on. Marc is careful to credit a number of
2349: the other developers for their work on the system.
2350: <p>
2351:
2352: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 2353: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/11/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">Homemade Embedded BSD Systems</a>,
2354: ONLamp.com, March 11, 2004.
2355: </strong></font><br>
1.385 jose 2356: The start of a short series of articles on putting OpenBSD on the <a
1.384 jose 2357: href="http://www.soekris.com/">Soekris</a> device, a small x86 based PC
2358: device. Using the NET4801 device, the author pares down OpenBSD for
2359: installation on a CF storage device. A list of resources are available,
2360: too.
2361: <p>
2362:
2363: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.378 henning 2364: [GERMAN] Apparently insecure, analysis of Windows 2000, Linux and OpenBSD sourcecode, iX 04/04, p. 14.
2365: </strong></font><br>
1.379 henning 2366: A small article describing the results of examining Windows 2000, Linux and
1.378 henning 2367: OpenBSD source code using
2368: <a href="http://www.dwheeler.com/flawfinder">Flawfinder</a>.
2369: "OpenBSD is ahead, Flawfinder finds a surprisingly small number of
2370: potentially dangerous constructs. The source code audit by the OpenBSD team
2371: seems to pay out. Additionally, OpenBSD uses the secure strlcpy/strlcat by
2372: Todd C. Miller instead of strcpy etc."
2373: <p>
2374: </ul>
2375:
1.374 jose 2376: <h2>January, 2004</h2>
2377: <ul>
2378: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 2379: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1845592592&fp=16&fpid=0">Banks' use of IIS scary</a>,
1.375 jose 2380: ComputerWorld, January 30, 2004.
2381: </strong></font><br>
2382: A brief but solid mention of OpenBSD. After examining how many Australian
2383: banks use IIS on Windows, web server security is examined. The article
2384: ends with a priceless quote, "I recommend OpenBSD for Apache as it can't
2385: be overlooked for edge security and there is no such thing as viruses for
2386: it."
2387: <p>
2388:
2389: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.374 jose 2390: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2004/index/interviews/interviews_brauer">Fosdem
2391: Interview: Henning Brauer</a>,
2392: Fosdem 2004, January 6, 2004.
2393: </strong></font><br/>
2394: A brief interview with Henning Brauer conducted as the Fosdem conference
2395: approaches. Henning talks about changes in 3.4, in -current, and the
2396: BGP daemon he's been working on for the past few months.
2397: <p>
2398: </ul>
2399:
1.369 ian 2400: <h2>October, 2003</h2>
2401: <ul>
2402: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 2403: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1368006,00.asp">Outside Looking In: The BSD Operating Systems</a>,
2404: eWeek, October 31, 2003.
2405: </strong></font><br/>
2406: A commentary on all of the BSDs and what kind of commercial success they've
2407: enjoyed. While Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols notes that Linux is easier to
2408: install and configure than the freely available BSDs, he does continually
2409: praise them, especially OpenBSD.
2410: <p>
2411:
2412: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 2413: <a href="http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7542683131.html">VIA wows
2414: with nano-sized x86, entropy-based security, tiny PCs</a>,
2415: LinuxDevices.com, October 15, 2003.
2416: </strong></font><br/>
2417: Another article which extracts heavily from the VIA press release
2418: and includes a quote from Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD support for the
2419: processor. Additionally, it shows a photo of the processor next to a US
2420: one cent coin and an Intel Pentium M processor, illustrating its small
2421: form factor.
2422: <p>
2423:
2424: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2425: <a href="http://www.via.com.tw/en/Digital%20Library/PR031014EdenN.jsp">VIA
2426: Unveils New NanoBGA VIA Eden-N Processor, World's Smallest & Lowest
2427: Power Native x86 Processor with Industry's Most Advanced Embedded Security
2428: Features</a>,
2429: Press Release, October 14, 2003.
2430: </strong></font><br/>
2431: VIA announces a new small, low power native x86 processor with an
2432: integrated multi-mode AES implementation. Theo de Raadt is quoted as
2433: saying, "There's just no way to describe how happy we were to find such an
2434: inexpensive, blazingly fast, and correctly operating device as the VIA
2435: Eden-N processor's Padlock ACE ..." OpenBSD 3.4 has support for this
2436: processor and its integrated cryptographic engine.
2437: <p>
2438: This article can also be found online at:
2439: <ul>
2440: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 2441: <a href="http://www.hardwarezone.com/news/news.hwz?cid=10&aid=13257">VIA Unveils New NanoBGA VIA Eden-N Processor, Worlds Smallest & Lowest Power Native x86 Processor with Industrys Most Advanced Embedded Security Features</a>,
1.371 jose 2442: HardwareZone.com, October 14, 2003.
2443: </strong></font>
2444: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
2445: </ul>
2446: <p>
1.392 david 2447:
1.371 jose 2448: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 2449: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/09/adding_system_calls.html">
2450: Adding System Calls (an OpenBSD Example)</a>,
1.371 jose 2451: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 9, 2003.
2452: </strong></font><br/>
2453: Another O'ReillyNet article about OpenBSD by an OpenBSD developer. This
2454: one, by Kevin Lo, is a quick introduction to the modification of the
2455: OpenBSD kernel to support a new system call. Example code is included.
1.392 david 2456: <p>
1.371 jose 2457:
2458: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.369 ian 2459: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/02/openbsd_gcc.html">Diving
1.370 ian 2460: into GCC: OpenBSD and m88k</a>,
1.371 jose 2461: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 2, 2003.
1.369 ian 2462: </strong></font><br/>
2463: Our own Miod Vallat discusses how he learned to stop fearing GCC
2464: by just getting down and messing with its internals.
2465: Since he "started with almost zero gcc internals knowledge, it
2466: should be understandable by anyone able to read C code, and proves that
2467: diving into gcc is not as hard as one could imagine." Along the way, he
2468: gives some informative background on the Motorola 88000 architecture
2469: and its history with OpenBSD.
2470: </ul>
2471:
1.567 kurt 2472: <h2>September, 2003</h2>
2473: <ul>
2474: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2475: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/bsdcon03/tech/full_papers/rosenthal/rosenthal_html/">
2476: A Digital Preservation Network Appliance Based on OpenBSD</a>, BSDcon, September, 2003.
2477: </strong></font><br>
2478: David S. H. Rosenthal's paper on the design, implementation and deployment of the
2479: <a href="http://www.lockss.org">LOCKSS</a> network appliance based on OpenBSD.
2480: </ul>
2481:
1.368 henning 2482: <h2>August, 2003</h2>
2483: <ul>
2484: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 2485: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/kav-26.08.03-001/">OpenBSD-Firewall erkennt Betriebssysteme</a>, heise online, August 26, 2003.
1.368 henning 2486: </strong></font><br>
2487: Short announcement of pf's passive os fingerprinting.
2488: </ul>
2489:
1.364 jose 2490: <h2>July, 2003</h2>
2491: <ul>
2492: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 2493: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0307i/">
2494: The Open Road: Return of Packet Filter</a>,
2495: UNIX Review,
2496: July, 2003.
2497: </strong></font><br>
2498: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier returns to give a more detailed tour of the
2499: configuration and use of PF. Lots of links and pointers for people
2500: who want more information.
2501: <p>
2502:
2503: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.366 jose 2504: <a href="http://gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/22845-1.html">
2505: Clarke advocates grass-roots action to protect critical IT</a>,
2506: Government Computer News,
2507: July 22, 2003.
2508: </strong></font><br>
2509: Richard Clarke, the former cybersecurity czar for the White House (US),
2510: discusses challenges to developing a secure IT infrastructure. The end
2511: of the article mentions the awards presentations he made with SANS
2512: to OpenBSD for effective OS security testing.
2513: <p>
2514:
2515: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2516: <a href="http://www.sans.org/press/ISLA.php">
2517: Users Recognize Leadership in Operating System and Network Security</a>,
2518: SANS Institute,
2519: July 22, 2003.
2520: </strong></font><br>
2521: OpenBSD was chosen as a winner in the 2003 Information Security Leadership
1.377 david 2522: Awards, organized by the <a href="http://www.sans.org/">SANS institute</a>.
1.366 jose 2523: OpenBSD was chosen as the winner of the award for effective security
2524: testing of an operating system. To quote part of the award,
2525: "In the 2003 competition among military academies and grad schools, in which
2526: they competed to provide the best defense against cyber attacks launched
2527: by National Security Agency specialists, the judges acknowledged that in
2528: the final analysis, use of OpenBSD was a determining factor in the winner's
2529: ability to fight off attacks." The awards were presented by Richard Clarke
2530: in Washington DC. Other awards included patch distribution mechanisms
2531: and denial of service attack mitigation techniques.
2532: <p>
2533:
2534: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.364 jose 2535: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/07/17/openbsd_core_team.html">
2536: The Essence of OpenBSD</a>,
2537: OnLamp.com,
2538: July 17, 2003.
2539: </strong></font><br>
2540: Cameron Laird and George Peter Staplin offer an interview with several
2541: OpenBSD developers, including Theo de Raadt, Daniel Hartmeier, Jason
2542: Wright, Miod Vallat, and Dale Rahn. The developers talk about how the
2543: project came to be in 1995, how they came to the project, and what they
2544: have been working on.
2545:
2546: </ul>
2547:
1.356 jose 2548: <h2>June, 2003</h2>
1.338 ian 2549: <ul>
2550:
2551: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 2552: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0306l/">
2553: The Open Road: OpenBSD's Packet Filter</a>,
2554: UNIX Review,
2555: June, 2003.
2556: </strong></font><br>
2557: Author Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier provides a brief introduction to installing
2558: OpenBSD and the basics of PF. The article is quite short and cannot
2559: provide enough detail to do anything but start looking at the rules and
2560: use of PF. This is the first in a two-part series on OpenBSD and PF.
2561: <p>
2562:
2563: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.363 jose 2564: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1135078,00.asp">
2565: Is It Time for BSD?</a>,
2566: eWeek,
2567: June 23, 2003.
2568: </strong></font><br>
2569: Jim Rapoza discusses the current SCO legal battles against IBM and the
2570: Linux community. Citing the legal friction, Rapoza encourages IT
2571: departments to investigate the BSD world, especially OpenBSD, which
2572: have already settled their UNIX source code claims with AT&T.
2573: The security and track record of the BSD distributions is also touted
2574: as a reason to investigate their use in corporate IT settings.
2575: <p>
2576:
2577: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.360 jose 2578: <a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=7816/sdmdev0306/">
2579: Loose Lips Sink Ships</a>,
2580: Software Development Online,
2581: June, 2003.
2582: </strong></font><br>
2583: Alexandra Weber Morales provides a concise summary of the DARPA-OpenBSD
2584: funding issue by repeating some information published elsewhere and also
2585: providing original material from others. Old and new quotes from Jan
2586: Walker reiterate the original DARPA position. Gene Spafford, Gary McGraw
2587: both contribute comments on the project's situation and current state.
2588: Also provides a concise summary of the project's latest release and
2589: current activities.
2590: <p>
2591:
2592: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.358 henning 2593: [GERMAN] "We don't do politics, we write software", c't 13/03, p. 106.
2594: </strong></font><br>
1.361 henning 2595: An interview with Theo - over two pages, he talks about the DARPA funding
2596: story, explains the importance of the hackathons and how the 2003
2597: hackathon was different from the past ones that had a "mission",
2598: like replacing ipf with pf at the Boston hackathon. Opposed to that, this
1.413 deraadt 2599: year's hackathon didn't have a mission, but rather around 20 teams working
1.361 henning 2600: on different projects and forming new teams later to attack other problems.
2601: He describes a "very complex and intense climate" and points out
2602: that support for AMD Hammer, UltraSPARC III, SMP and Mozilla was done.
1.362 henning 2603: Theo also talks about the DARPA funding cut and its effects - basically
1.361 henning 2604: that funding will work like it did before the grant, through
2605: CD, T-Shirt and Poster sales as well as donations.
1.413 deraadt 2606: Asked about Linus Torvald's role in Linux Theo describes his role in OpenBSD
1.361 henning 2607: as a "friendly dictator" who is involved in all major
2608: decisions.
2609: A further topic is, naturally, security. Theo points out that an absolutely
2610: secure system would imply a bugfree system and thus is not possible, and
1.413 deraadt 2611: briefly explains ProPolice and W^X. A small followup article focuses on the
1.361 henning 2612: basics of ProPolice and W^X.
1.358 henning 2613: <p>
2614:
2615: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.355 jose 2616: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1111894,00.asp">
2617: OpenBSD gets harder to crack</a>,
2618: Page 58, eWeek,
2619: June 2, 2003.
2620: </strong></font><br>
2621: Timothy Dyck reviews the latest OpenBSD release, 3.3, and focuses on the
2622: new features: PF and the integration with ALTQ and the system wide stack
2623: protection mechanisms. Some of the criticisms in the article have already
2624: been addressed in -current.
2625: <p>
2626:
1.356 jose 2627: </ul>
2628:
2629: <h2>May, 2003</h2>
2630: <ul>
2631:
1.355 jose 2632: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.357 jose 2633: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=499">
2634: Interview with Ivan Arce, CTO of Core Security Technologies</a>
2635: Help Net Security, May 29, 2003.
2636: </strong></font><br>
2637: Berislav Kucan interviews Ivan Arce, CTO of <a
2638: href="http://www.corest.com">Core Security Technologies</a>. Several of
2639: the people at Core have been involved in the development of OpenBSD, and
2640: they commonly use OpenBSD as one of their development and deployment
2641: platforms. In the interview, Ivan is quoted as saying "... from a purely
2642: security perspective. I would say that OpenBSD is still the king of the
2643: hill." PF is also one of Ivan's top five security tools.
2644: <p>
2645:
2646: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.353 jose 2647: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/23/21OPconnection_1.html">
2648: Beyond Linux</a>,
2649: InfoWorld,
2650: May 23, 2003.
2651: </strong></font><br>
2652: Columnist Chad Dickerson discusses several Open Source projects as
2653: alternatives to Linux. OpenBSD gets a brief mention as the most secure
2654: free OS available. The BSD license is also touted in a positive light
2655: compared to the GPL.
2656: <p>
2657:
2658: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.349 deraadt 2659: <a href="http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=dd4eb943-192f-4e5a-8d7f-e2a93a4e7b43">
2660: Elite Programmers `Hack' to Help Others</a>,
2661: Pages A1/D1/D4, Calgary Herald,
1.346 ian 2662: May 17, 2003.
2663: </strong></font><br>
2664: Tamara Gignac came out to the hackathon and spent much of the day
2665: talking to team members; her article takes up half the front page of
2666: the business section and half of another page inside
2667: (plus a four-column-inch teaser on the front page).
2668: "We're addicted to making good stuff that works", she quotes Theo,
2669: in talking about the project's history and goals.
2670: Goes over the whole gamut of meanings of the term "hacker" -
2671: including early MIT hackerdom and quotes from Tim Berners-Lee -
2672: and how the term went downhill in the public's mind after the
2673: <i>War Games</i> movie. Photos of dhartmei, jason and others.
1.351 ian 2674: <br>
2675: This article can also be found online at:
2676: <ul>
2677: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2678: <a href="http://www.canada.com/saskatoon/starphoenix/info/business/story.html?id=F5F23FF7-E0EE-4C54-BBED-7B523C6AFBF2">
2679: Hackers Try for a Good Rap</a>,
2680: Saskatoon StarPhoenix,
2681: May 17, 2003
2682: </strong></font>
1.352 ian 2683: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
2684: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2685: <a href="http://www.canada.com/montreal/specials/business/story.html?id=4C8B848C-8772-4C2E-B8F7-60CDAC678303">
2686: Hackers try to buff their image</a>,
2687: Montreal Gazette,
2688: May 21, 2003
2689: </strong></font></li>
1.351 ian 2690: </ul>
1.347 deraadt 2691: <p>
1.346 ian 2692:
2693: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.345 deraadt 2694: Funding cut linked to antiwar remarks, Page E5,
1.348 ian 2695: Calgary Herald,
1.345 deraadt 2696: May 7, 2003.
2697: </strong></font><br>
2698: An article not yet on the net by Tamara Gignac once again discusses
2699: the DARPA funding cut and how it will have no affect on the Hackathon
2700: happening in Calgary starting the 9th.
2701: <p>
2702:
2703: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.344 deraadt 2704: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/21438.html">
2705: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
2706: OsOpinion,
2707: May 6, 2003.
2708: </strong></font><br>
2709: Joe Brockmeier writes a scathing discussion regarding the perception of
2710: wrongdoing inside DARPA and Air Force in regards to the funding cut.
2711: <br>
2712: This article can also be found online at:
2713: <ul>
2714: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2715: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21438.html">
2716: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
2717: NewsFactor Network.
2718: </strong></font>
2719: </ul>
2720: <p>
2721:
2722: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2723: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=52131">
1.343 deraadt 2724: OpenBSD, closed doors</a>,
2725: ITBusiness,
2726: May 2, 2003.
2727: </strong></font><br>
2728: Shane Schick covers a quick recount of the DARPA funding situation, the
2729: release of 3.3 and its buffer-overflow fighting security features.
2730: Despite some errors, the article interestingly ends with a suggestion
2731: that the Canadian government should help fund OpenBSD.
2732: <p>
2733:
2734: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.341 deraadt 2735: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/01/HNopenbsd33_1.html">
2736: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
2737: InfoWorld,
2738: May 1, 2003.
1.338 ian 2739: </strong></font><br>
1.342 deraadt 2740: Carly Suppa discusses the new things that can be found in OpenBSD 3.3.
2741: <br>
2742: This article can also be found online at:
2743: <ul>
2744: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2745: <a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/15D00CA80554E2B648256D1A000F9270?OpenDocument">
2746: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
2747: IDG Singapore.
2748: </strong></font>
2749: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 2750: <p>
2751:
1.339 jose 2752: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2753: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-999200.html">
2754: OpenBSD 3.3 prevails despite funding cut</a>,
1.341 deraadt 2755: ZDNet,
2756: May 1, 2003.
2757: </strong></font><br>
2758: An article with a number of errors, apparently cobbled together by
1.342 deraadt 2759: someone using parts from previous articles.
2760: <br>
1.341 deraadt 2761: This article can also be found online at:
2762: <ul>
2763: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2764: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/999200.htm">
2765: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
2766: BusinessWeek.com.
1.339 jose 2767: </strong></font>
2768: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2769: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-999200.html">
2770: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
2771: CNET News.com.
2772: </strong></font>
2773: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2774: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2134164,00.html?rtag=zdnetukhompage">
2775: OpenBSD releases version 3.3</a>,
2776: ZDNet UK.
2777: </strong></font>
2778: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2779: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=480">
2780: OpenBSD 3.3 has been released</a>,
2781: Help Net Security, Croatia.
2782: </strong></font>
2783: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 2784: <p>
1.339 jose 2785:
1.341 deraadt 2786: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.571 miod 2787: <a href="http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-announce&m=105175475006905&w=2">
1.341 deraadt 2788: OpenBSD 3.3 Released</a>,
2789: Todd Miller in <a href="mail.html">openbsd-announce</a>,
2790: May 1, 2003.
2791: </strong></font><br>
2792: The official announcement of the 3.3 release lists all the great things
2793: that have been added
2794: to the system in 3.3, including ProPolice, W^X, fewer setuid/setgid programs,
2795: more privsep, major security and usability improvements in pf,
2796: more hardware support including the HPPA platform, spamd, more and better
1.350 deraadt 2797: third-party "ports", many upgrades to included software, and more.
1.341 deraadt 2798: Recommends purchase of CD and T-shirts to provide continuing funding
2799: for the project (more so now that the DARPA funding is gone).
2800: As always, OpenBSD remains free software, so you can FTP it for free.
1.338 ian 2801: <p>
2802:
2803: </ul>
2804:
1.253 ian 2805: <h2>April, 2003</h2>
2806: <ul>
1.255 ian 2807:
1.260 ian 2808: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2809: <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220030428mco01.htm&page=1&vf=tt">
1.330 deraadt 2810: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
2811: TechRepublic,
2812: April 28, 2003.
2813: </strong></font><br>
2814: John McCormick writes about the recent W^X and ProPolice efforts in the
2815: upcoming 3.3 release, noting that other vendors should look at this
1.331 deraadt 2816: work.<br>
2817: Can also be found online at:
2818: <ul>
2819: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2820: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133935,00.html">
2821: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
2822: ZDNet UK.
2823: </strong></font>
2824: </ul>
1.330 deraadt 2825: <p>
2826:
2827: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.326 deraadt 2828: <a href="http://www.idg.net/ic_1309735_9677_1-5043.html">
2829: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events'</a>,
2830: IDG,
2831: April 24, 2003.
2832: </strong></font><br>
2833: Grant Gross provides another summary of new information regarding
2834: the DARPA grant situation. Like other reporters, he runs into a
2835: wall, as DARPA refuses to "go into any more detail."<br>
2836: Can also be found online at:
2837: <ul>
2838: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2839: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/24/HNdarpaopen_1.html">
2840: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events</a>,
1.340 jose 2841: InfoWorld.
1.326 deraadt 2842: </strong></font>
2843: </ul>
2844: <p>
2845:
2846: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2847: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2081943/">
1.327 david 2848: The Fix Is In: Programmers can stop Internet worms. Will they?</a>,
1.326 deraadt 2849: Slate,
2850: April 24, 2003.
2851: </strong></font><br>
2852: Paul Boutin asks whether the buffer overflow prevention techniques
2853: found in OpenBSD 3.3 will, in time, find themselves into commercial
2854: operating systems like Windows, where they could have stopped major
2855: buffer-overflow based problems like Slammer, Code Red, and Nimda.
2856: <p>
2857:
2858: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.325 ian 2859: <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/29186/">OpenBSD Funding</a>,
2860: LWN.net Weekly Edition,
2861: April 24, 2003.
2862: </strong></font><br>
2863: ($ registration required; free after May 1, 2003).
2864: <br/>More detailed discussion of why the funding was cut, by whom
2865: and when. Concludes that the funding cut "may not be as dramatic
2866: as it sounds", since OpenBSD has other sources of funding.
2867: <p>
2868:
2869: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.324 ian 2870: [ITALIAN] <a href="http://webnews.html.it/focus/290.htm">La DARPA ritira i fondi per OpenBSD</a>, WebNews online,
2871: April 24, 2003.
2872: </strong></font><br>
2873: Notes that DARPA's funding cut is "a gesture that has echoed throughout
2874: the free software community".
2875: Refers to the AP article below, and has lots of links to
2876: other articles.
2877: <p>
2878:
2879: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2880: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/24/politics/24HACK.html?ex=1051761600&en=87a56d5c962b64e4&ei=5062">Canadian Programmer Says U.S. Cut Funding After Comments</a>,
1.324 ian 2881: New York Times, April 24, 2003.
2882: </strong></font><br>
2883: Another take on the ongoing saga, with some interesting remarks:
2884: Reporter Jennifer Lee comments that the controversy
2885: "highlights the delicate balance between the military and the
2886: anti-establishment bent of some in the technology community. It
2887: also shows that the international pool of computer programmers and
2888: hackers, possessing vast technological expertise, is not entirely
2889: sympathetic to the American military's current role in world
1.413 deraadt 2890: affairs." Notes the discrepancy between DARPA's public position
1.324 ian 2891: and what the people working on the UPenn project have been told.
2892: <br/>
2893: Describes Theo de Raadt as "A respected Canadian computer programmer ...
2894: the 35-year-old founder of an international collaborative software project
2895: known as OpenBSD", and quotes him as saying that the hackathon will go on:
2896: "We are free people, we are hobbyists," he said. "We do this for fun."
1.328 deraadt 2897: <br>
2898: Can also be found online at:
2899: <ul>
2900: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2901: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0424-08.htm">
2902: Canadian Programmer Says U.S. Cut Funding After Comments</a>,
2903: Common Dreams NewsCenter
2904: </strong></font>
2905: </ul>
1.324 ian 2906: <p>
2907:
2908: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2909: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58602,00.html">Organizer: 'Hackathon' Will Go On</a>,
2910: Wired, April 24, 2003.
2911: </strong></font><br>
2912: Another retelling of the tale, similar in scope to the NYTimes.com
2913: article above.
2914: Quotes Theo as saying: "The hackathon will go on," de Raadt said.
2915: "There's no way I'll be taking 60 people's personal flights and
2916: wasting them."
1.332 ian 2917: <br>
2918: Can also be found online at:
2919: <ul>
2920: <li>
2921: <font color="#009000"><strong>[JAPANESE] <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/20030425302.html">Wired News Japan</a>
2922: </strong></font>
2923: </ul>
1.324 ian 2924: <p>
2925:
2926: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.322 cloder 2927: <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/23/0256240.shtml">Open Source Enables Terrorist States</a>, Slashdot, April 23, 2003.
2928: </strong></font><br>
2929: Coverage and commentary on DARPA's cancellation and its implications for open source software.
2930: <p>
2931:
2932: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.321 pvalchev 2933: <a href="http://www.dailypennsylvanian.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/04/23/3ea643207f30d">Federal funding abruptly cut for research project</a>, dailypennsylvanian.com, April 23, 2003.
2934: </strong></font><br>
2935: An article from the University of Pennsylvania commenting
2936: on the DARPA cut and the university involvement in it.
2937: <p>
2938:
2939: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.319 henning 2940: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-23.04.03-000/">OpenBSD in Ungnade</a>, Heise online,
2941: April 23, 2003.
2942: </strong></font><br>
2943: OpenBSD in disgrace - UPenn's actions against the hackathon.
2944: <p>
2945:
2946: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.316 ian 2947: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/14830.phtml">Defensie VS stopt subsidie OpenBSD</a>, WebWereld NL,
1.315 deraadt 2948: April 22, 2003.
2949: </strong></font><br>
2950: This article works from information found in the CNET article.
2951: <p>
2952:
2953: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.297 deraadt 2954: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
2955: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
2956: Sydney Morning Herald, April 21, 2003.
1.308 jose 2957: </strong></font><br>
1.297 deraadt 2958: Yet another article on the DARPA moves, this time from down under.
2959: Days before the grant was recalled, Jonathan M. Smith told de Raadt
2960: that "perceptions of wrong doing" were very important to UPENN. When
2961: papers around the world start making assertions of wrong doing on
2962: UPENN and DARPA's part, how is that for perception?<br>
2963: Can also be found online at:
2964: <ul>
2965: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2966: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1.307 deraadt 2967: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
2968: The Age.
1.297 deraadt 2969: </strong></font>
1.311 deraadt 2970: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2971: [INDONESIAN] <a href="http://www.detikinet.com/net/2003/04/21/20030421-105803.shtml">
1.312 deraadt 2972: OpenBSD Terhambat Anti-Perang</a>,
2973: detiki-Net, Indonesia.
1.311 deraadt 2974: </strong></font>
1.297 deraadt 2975: </ul>
2976: <p>
2977:
2978: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.318 deraadt 2979: [TURKISH] <a href="http://www.olympos.org/article/articleview/1047/1/1">
2980: DARPA OpenBSD'ye Destegini Geri Çekiyor...</a>,
1.306 deraadt 2981: Olympos Security, April 20, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2982: </strong></font><br>
2983: The leading Turkish IT Security Portal reporting about the DARPA fund
1.306 deraadt 2984: cut. Talks about the DARPA CHATS funding to POSSE program and the
2985: benefits to the open source community. Quotes from de Raadt's anti-war
2986: views from the interview and his plans for holding the approaching
2987: hackathon even without funding. Also covers the OpenBSD project's many
2988: contributions to the field of operating system security and proactive
2989: auditing.
1.299 deraadt 2990: <p>
2991:
2992: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.291 deraadt 2993: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030419/RMILI/TPScience/">
2994: Researcher feels anti-war views cost him U.S. funding</a>,
1.308 jose 2995: Globe & Mail, April 18, 2003.
2996: </strong></font><br>
1.291 deraadt 2997: David Akin writes a second article about the DARPA situation. His original
2998: article, found further down, was the one which reputedly angered officials
2999: at UPenn and DARPA.
3000: <p>
3001:
3002: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.359 miod 3003: [FRENCH] <a href="http://www.weblmi.com/news_store/2003_04_18_La_DARPA_coupe_les_v_32/News_view">La DARPA coupe les vivres a OpenBSD</a>, Le Monde Informatique,
3004: France
1.315 deraadt 3005: April 18, 2003.
3006: </strong></font><br>
1.317 ian 3007: A small article in the french press.
1.315 deraadt 3008: <p>
3009:
3010: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.299 deraadt 3011: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-18.04.03-002/">Aus der Traum: Keine US-Gelder für OpenBSD</a>, Heise News-Ticker,
1.306 deraadt 3012: April 18, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 3013: </strong></font><br>
3014: DARPA cancels OS project funding after comments
3015: <p>
3016:
3017: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.283 jsyn 3018: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/04/18/darpa.html">
3019: Soldiers Renege on Hackers</a>,
3020: OnLamp.com, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 3021: </strong></font><br>
1.283 jsyn 3022: Ian Darwin has written an editorial piece which ties together the history
3023: of DARPA, Canadian-US relations, and the events immediately surrounding
3024: the ending of the grant for the POSSE project.
3025: <p>
3026:
3027: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.267 deraadt 3028: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1050693906.html">
3029: DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3030: Ars Technica Newsdesk, April 18, 2003.
1.267 deraadt 3031: </strong></font><br>
3032: Semi On reports on the sudden pulling of OpenBSD's DARPA grant
3033: funding. This article laments about the possibility that researchers
3034: must be "good party men" in order to receive funding in the new
1.290 jose 3035: American century.
1.267 deraadt 3036: <p>
3037:
3038: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 deraadt 3039: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
3040: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3041: IDG News Service, April 18, 2003.
1.264 deraadt 3042: </strong></font><br>
1.267 deraadt 3043: Grant Gross writes about the sudden cancellation of the OpenBSD
3044: project funding by DARPA. This article includes some background as
3045: well as the response he received to his phone inquiries about the
3046: reasons for the abrupt cancellation.
3047: Can also be found online at:
3048: <ul>
3049: <li><a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">Network Fusion</a>
3050: <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/HNdarpa_1.html">Info World</a>
1.281 dhartmei 3051: <li><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">Computerworld</a>
1.304 deraadt 3052: <li><a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/4EB7D1016D5B4E7548256D0F0019F8A5?OpenDocument">IDG Singapore</a>
1.267 deraadt 3053: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 3054: <p>
3055:
3056: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.377 david 3057: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.262 beck 3058: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 3059: (title changed to "Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding" later)
1.269 deraadt 3060: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 3061: </strong></font><br>
3062: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
1.273 deraadt 3063: DARPA funding cancellation. There have been a series of edits of this
3064: story, with the title under constant flux. This story has been picked
3065: up by many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories including:
3066: <ul>
1.283 jsyn 3067:
3068: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3069: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Grant-Canceled.html">
3070: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
3071: New York Times.
3072: </strong></font>(free registration required)
3073:
1.273 deraadt 3074: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3075: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">
1.276 deraadt 3076: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 3077: ABC News.
3078: </strong></font>
3079:
3080: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3081: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.273 deraadt 3082: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.287 jsyn 3083: Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA.
1.273 deraadt 3084: </strong></font>
3085:
3086: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3087: <a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 3088: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.287 jsyn 3089: Lakeland Ledger, FL.
1.273 deraadt 3090: </strong></font>
3091:
3092: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.278 deraadt 3093: <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/18/darpa/index.html">
3094: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war comments</a>,
1.284 jsyn 3095: Salon.
1.278 deraadt 3096: </strong></font>
3097:
3098: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3099: <a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 3100: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>
1.273 deraadt 3101: Times Daily, AL.
3102: </strong></font>
3103:
3104: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3105: <a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">
3106: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>
3107: Boston.com, MA.
3108: </strong></font>
3109:
3110: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3111: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.276 deraadt 3112: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.273 deraadt 3113: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL.
3114: </strong></font>
3115:
3116: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.274 deraadt 3117: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">
3118: [Article was pulled]</a>
3119: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.273 deraadt 3120: </strong></font>
3121:
3122: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3123: <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">
3124: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war ...</a>,
3125: Infoshop News.
3126: </strong></font>
3127:
3128: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3129: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">
3130: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
3131: San Jose Mercury News, CA.
3132: </strong></font>
3133:
3134: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.305 deraadt 3135: <a href="http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/859765p-6012789c.html">
3136: Military cancels OS project after programmer's comments</a>,
3137: Raleigh News, NC.
3138: </strong></font>
3139:
3140: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 3141: <a href="http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=22677BFE-1AD7-4969-B4B6-C33A2D214DAE">
1.314 deraadt 3142: Military cancels project's funding after programmer's anti-war comments</a>,
3143: Napa News, CA.
3144: </strong></font>
3145:
3146: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3147: <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">
1.273 deraadt 3148: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
3149: NEPA News, PA.
3150: </strong></font>
3151:
3152: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3153: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58553,00.html">
3154: Peace Talk Halts Defence OS Job</a>,
3155: Wired News.
3156: </strong></font>
1.332 ian 3157: <br>
3158: <li>
1.333 deraadt 3159: <font color="#009000"><strong>
3160: [JAPANESE]
3161: <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/culture/story/20030423205.html">
3162: Wired News Japan</a>
3163: </strong></font>
1.273 deraadt 3164:
1.271 deraadt 3165: </ul>
3166: <p>
1.272 deraadt 3167: Then on some news sites, the story starts to change. A spokeswoman
3168: from DARPA is quoted as saying "We're sorry if this review process has
1.274 deraadt 3169: been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work." (If it was not
3170: a cancellation, then why did Mark West from UPENN phone the Hyatt
3171: Calgary and cancel the reservations -- even before OpenBSD was
3172: informed by Jonathan Smith, who in email said "Penn has been contacted
3173: by the Air Force and NO FURTHER COSTS MAY BE INCURRED, effective
3174: today, 4/17/03", "All subcontracts are terminated, effective TODAY",
1.308 jose 3175: and "Penn must cancel/terminate contracts & obligations such as the
1.274 deraadt 3176: Hyatt and travel not yet PAID. Mark, please carry this out ASAP per
3177: our contractual requirements with the government" These papers proceed
3178: to pick up the new story; some retain the old one:
1.271 deraadt 3179: <p>
3180: <ul>
1.273 deraadt 3181:
3182: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3183: <a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GRANT_CANCELED?SITE=ININS&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">
1.285 jsyn 3184: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
3185: Indianapolis Star, IN.
3186: </strong></font>
3187:
3188: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 3189: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
3190: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
3191: Miami Herald, FL.
3192: </strong></font>
3193:
3194: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.282 dhartmei 3195: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42749-03.txt">Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.275 deraadt 3196: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
3197: </strong></font>
3198:
3199: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3200: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 3201: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 3202: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 3203: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 3204:
3205: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3206: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
3207: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
3208: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
3209: ABC News.
3210: </strong></font>
3211:
1.276 deraadt 3212: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3213: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
1.309 jose 3214: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.284 jsyn 3215: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.276 deraadt 3216: </strong></font>
3217:
1.286 dhartmei 3218: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3219: <a href="http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180871&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.286 dhartmei 3220: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
3221: Wilmington Star, NC.
3222: </strong></font>
3223:
1.300 jose 3224: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3225: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/5670981.htm">
3226: Project wasn't dropped over anti-war stance, agency says</a>,
3227: The Contra Costa Times, Northern California.
3228: </strong></font>
3229:
1.309 jose 3230: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3231: <a href="http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030421.gtprog0421/GTStory">
3232: Programmer says criticism of military cost him contract</a>,
3233: Globe Technology.
3234: </strong></font>
3235:
1.263 deraadt 3236: </ul>
1.262 beck 3237: <p>
3238:
3239: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 3240: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
3241: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3242: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 3243: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 3244: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 3245: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
3246: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
3247: <p>
3248:
3249: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.289 jose 3250: <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9030">
3251: OpenBSD loses DARPA money for hackathon</a>,
3252: The Inquirer, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 3253: </strong></font><br>
1.289 jose 3254: A critical story about how Theo's criticisms of the US-led war in Iraq
3255: with respect to the source of funding is what caused the DARPA funding
3256: to be canceled. The timing of the grant's revocation is unfortunate for
3257: the upcoming OpenBSD hackathon, which was to be partly funded by the
3258: grant. This story was written without information from OpenBSD or DARPA
3259: and simply restates other press reports.
3260: <p>
3261:
3262: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 deraadt 3263: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
3264: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
3265: OS News, April 18, 2003.
3266: </strong></font><br>
3267: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
3268: <p>
3269:
3270: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 3271: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
3272: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3273: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 3274: </strong></font><br>
3275: Another report on the DARPA funding.
3276: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
3277: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
3278: <p>
3279:
3280: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.330 deraadt 3281: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133221,00.html">
3282: IT Anthems: OpenBSD</a>,
3283: ZDNet UK Tech Update,
3284: April 17, 2003.
3285: </strong></font><br>
3286: Peter Judge, who maintains the large
3287: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2122414,00.html">
3288: Tech Anthems</a>
3289: archives, does a little writeup about the OpenBSD release songs,
3290: 4 so far.
3291: <p>
3292:
3293: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 3294: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
3295: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3296: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 3297: </strong></font><br>
3298: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
3299: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
3300: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
3301: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
3302: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
3303: Goes on to say:
3304: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
3305: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
3306: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
3307: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
1.279 deraadt 3308: This article is also found online at:
3309: <ul>
1.298 deraadt 3310: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3311: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
3312: BusinessWeek.com</a>,
3313: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 3314: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 3315: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3316: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997393.html">
3317: ZDnet</a>,
3318: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 3319: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 3320: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3321: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20273830,00.htm">
3322: ZDnet Australia</a>,
3323: US Defence pulls open source funding.
1.308 jose 3324: </strong></font><br>
1.279 deraadt 3325: </ul>
1.260 ian 3326: <p>
1.279 deraadt 3327:
1.260 ian 3328: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3329: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
1.260 ian 3330: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.322 cloder 3331: Slashdot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 3332: </strong></font><br>
1.322 cloder 3333: Slashdot report (and user followups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 3334: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
3335: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
3336: without notice or justification.
3337: <p>
3338:
3339: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.571 miod 3340: <a href="http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
1.260 ian 3341: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.290 jose 3342: MARC (Mailing list Archives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 3343: </strong></font><br>
3344: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
3345: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
1.308 jose 3346: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
1.260 ian 3347: effective today, without any warning..."
3348: <p>
1.257 ian 3349:
3350: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 3351: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
3352: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3353: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 3354: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 3355: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
3356: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
3357: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
3358: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
3359: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 3360: <p>
3361:
3362: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 3363: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
3364: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3365: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 3366: </strong></font><br>
3367: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
3368: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
3369: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
3370: quoting two of them:
3371: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
3372: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
3373: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
3374: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
3375: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
3376: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
3377: <p>
3378:
1.255 ian 3379: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3380: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.automatiseringsgids.nl/news/default.asp?nwsId=21776">
3381: Project OpenBSD strijdt tegen bufferoverflows</a>,
1.310 deraadt 3382: Automatiserings Gids Webeditie, April 14, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 3383: </strong></font><br>
1.310 deraadt 3384: A description of three new techniques in OpenBSD to counter buffer overflows.
1.299 deraadt 3385: <p>
3386:
3387: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.323 henning 3388: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-13.04.03-000/">OpenBSD mit neuem Sicherheitskonzept</a>, Heise News-Ticker,
1.306 deraadt 3389: April 13, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 3390: </strong></font><br>
3391: New security concepts in OpenBSD
3392: <p>
3393:
3394: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 3395: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
3396: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3397: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 3398: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 3399: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 3400: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
3401: security experts for more than three decades."
3402: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
3403: <p>
1.261 ian 3404:
1.254 drahn 3405: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.320 henning 3406: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-08.04.03-001/">US-Verteidigungsministerium unterstützt OpenBSD</a>,
1.313 deraadt 3407: Heise News-Ticker, April 8, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 3408: </strong></font><br>
3409: OpenBSD's DARPA grant
3410: <p>
3411:
3412: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.313 deraadt 3413: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21212.html">
3414: NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the World of Secure Operating Systems</a>
3415: NewsFactor, April 8, 2003.
3416: </strong></font><br>
3417: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier reports on what a secure operating system is made
3418: of; splitting things up between trusted and hardened systems, and finally
3419: discussion OpenBSD's path.
3420: <p>
3421:
3422: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 3423: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
3424: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3425: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 3426: </strong></font><br>
3427: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
3428: from US DARPA.
3429: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
3430: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
3431: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
3432: the BSD license.
3433: <p>
3434: </ul>
3435:
1.251 ian 3436: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
3437: <ul>
3438:
3439: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3440: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">
3441: [French] OpenBSD ne désarme pas</a>,
3442: Libroscope interview, March 19, 2003
3443: </strong></font><br>
3444:
3445: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
3446: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
3447: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
3448: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
3449: <p>
3450:
3451: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.251 ian 3452: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
3453: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.371 jose 3454: OnLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 3455: </strong></font><br>
3456: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
3457: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
3458: Mentions
3459: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
3460: and
3461: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
3462: programs.
3463: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
1.290 jose 3464: government purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
1.251 ian 3465: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
3466: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
3467: <p>
1.325 ian 3468: Note: some material related to POSSE is mirrored
3469: <a href="http://www.darwinsys.com/posse-mirror/">here</a>.
1.260 ian 3470:
3471: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3472: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
3473: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
3474: </strong></font><br>
3475: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
3476: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
3477: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
3478: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
3479: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
3480: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
3481: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
3482: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
3483: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
3484: put into service."
3485: <p>
3486: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
3487: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
3488: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
3489: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
3490: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
3491: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
3492: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
3493: computers with security features."
3494: <p>
1.329 ian 3495:
3496: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3497: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2079549/">
3498: Bush's Cyberstrategery: The administration's war against a bogus threat </a>,
3499: Slate,
3500: March 3, 2003.
3501: </strong></font><br>
1.413 deraadt 3502: Brendan Koerner's thorough dismissal of the total unreality and FUD
1.329 ian 3503: surrounding the Bush Administration's recent
3504: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/">National Strategy
3505: to Secure Cyberspace</a>, NIPC, vendors and others who profit by
3506: big-lie-hyping the threat of system crackers into a new force to be
3507: made war upon, like the "war" on drugs and the "war" on terrorism.
3508: Concludes: "... the bulk of the report's solutions are lame. Most
3509: are meaningless jargon, such as suggesting that "future components
3510: of the cyber infrastructure are built to be inherently secure and
3511: dependable for their users." A fantastic sentiment, but as mushy
3512: as stating that the president is "for the children." What about
3513: making software vendors liable for bug-ridden products? Or rooting
3514: out insecure Microsoft products like the troubled SQL server in favor
3515: of more secure open-source solutions like
3516: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>?"
3517: I can scarcely believe that Slate's owner Microsoft is paying
3518: them to write this stuff (nor that Koerner thinks OpenBSD is a database :-)).
3519: Finally: "Nothing so bold is forthcoming in the Strategy. Which is
3520: yet another indicator that the czars of national computer security
3521: are perfectly content to tease out the hyperbole in perpetuity.
3522: The bigger the perceived threat, the greater their importance inside
3523: the Beltway."
3524: <p>
1.251 ian 3525: </ul>
3526:
1.249 jufi 3527: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
3528: <ul>
3529: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3530: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
3531: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3532: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 3533: </strong></font><br>
3534: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
3535: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
1.290 jose 3536: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no response politics.
1.249 jufi 3537: <p>
1.334 ian 3538:
3539: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3540: <a href="http://www.egovos.org/pdf/dodfoss.pdf">Use of Free and
3541: Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense</a>,
3542: MITRE Report Number MP 02 W0000101, revised January 2, 2003
3543: </strong></font><br>
3544: Prepared by The MITRE Corporation for DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency),
3545: this report analyses how DOD uses open source software.
3546: The summary talks briefly about various terms (free, open source, etc.),
3547: then talks about the survey itself, one question of which was
3548: "... the hypothetical question ...
3549: of what would happen if FOSS software were banned in the DoD."
3550: <br>
3551: "The main conclusion of the analysis was that FOSS software plays
3552: a more critical role in the DoD than has generally been recognized.
3553: FOSS applications are most important in four broad areas: Infrastructure
3554: Support, Software Development, Security, and Research. One unexpected
3555: result was the degree to which Security depends on FOSS. Banning
3556: FOSS would remove certain types of infrastructure components (e.g.,
1.335 david 3557: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>) that currently help
1.334 ian 3558: support network security.
3559: It would also limit DoD access to, and overall expertise in, the use of
3560: powerful FOSS analysis and detection applications that hostile groups could
3561: use to help stage cyberattacks. Finally, it would remove the
3562: demonstrated ability of FOSS applications to be updated rapidly in
3563: response to new types of cyberattack. Taken together, these factors
3564: imply that banning FOSS would have immediate, broad, and strongly
3565: negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused
3566: DoD groups to defend against cyberattacks."
3567: <br>
3568: So, let's hope the policy wonks read this report.
3569: <p>
3570:
1.249 jufi 3571: </ul>
3572:
1.246 jufi 3573: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3574: <ul>
1.246 jufi 3575:
1.247 jufi 3576: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 3577: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 3578: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3579: CNET News.com, December 4, 2002.
1.246 jufi 3580: </strong></font><br>
3581: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
3582: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
3583: <p>
3584:
1.247 jufi 3585: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3586: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">
3587: [German] Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3588: Heise News-Ticker, December 4, 2002
1.301 jose 3589: </strong></font><br>
1.460 david 3590: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III CPU
1.301 jose 3591: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
3592: <p>
3593:
3594: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 3595: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 3596: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3597: eWeek, December 3, 2002.
1.246 jufi 3598: </strong></font><br>
3599: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
3600: in their annual OpenHack security test.
3601: <p>
1.247 jufi 3602: </ul>
1.246 jufi 3603:
1.244 jufi 3604: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3605: <ul>
1.246 jufi 3606:
1.247 jufi 3607: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 3608: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
3609: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
3610: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3611: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 3612: </strong></font><br>
3613: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
3614: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
3615: md5 digests.
3616: <p>
3617:
1.247 jufi 3618: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 3619: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 3620: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
3621: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 3622: </strong></font><br>
3623: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
3624: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
3625: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
3626: right the first time."
3627: <p>
1.247 jufi 3628: </ul>
1.244 jufi 3629:
3630:
3631: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3632: <ul>
1.244 jufi 3633:
1.247 jufi 3634: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 3635: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3636: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
3637: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 3638: </strong></font><br>
3639: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
3640: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
3641: part 6</a>.
3642: <p>
3643:
1.247 jufi 3644: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 3645: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 3646: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:
3647: Securing Remote PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3648: O'Reilly Network, August 8, 2002.
1.244 jufi 3649: </strong></font><br>
3650: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
3651: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
3652: <p>
1.301 jose 3653:
3654: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3655: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">
3656: [Polish] OpenBSD and Linux</a>,
3657: LinuxNews Radio, August 2, 2000
3658: </strong></font><br>
3659:
3660: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
3661: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
3662: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
3663: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
3664: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
3665: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
3666: <i>Here's the
3667: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
3668: <p>
1.247 jufi 3669: </ul>
1.242 jufi 3670:
3671: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3672: <ul>
1.242 jufi 3673:
1.247 jufi 3674: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3675: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 3676: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6: Archiving PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3677: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3678: </strong></font><br>
3679: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
3680: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
3681: <p>
3682:
1.247 jufi 3683: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3684: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3685: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3686: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 1, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3687: </strong></font><br>
3688: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
3689: this time using pf.
3690: <p>
1.247 jufi 3691: </ul>
1.242 jufi 3692:
3693: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3694: <ul>
1.242 jufi 3695:
1.247 jufi 3696: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3697: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3698: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
3699: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3700: </strong></font><br>
3701: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
3702: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
3703: their rotation.
3704: <p>
3705:
1.247 jufi 3706: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3707: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3708: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3709: O'Reilly Network, June 6, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3710: </strong></font><br>
3711: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
3712: <p>
1.247 jufi 3713: </ul>
1.242 jufi 3714:
1.239 jufi 3715: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3716: <ul>
1.239 jufi 3717:
1.247 jufi 3718: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3719: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 3720: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
3721: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3722: </strong></font><br>
3723: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
3724: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
3725: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
3726: <p>
3727:
1.247 jufi 3728: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 3729: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 3730: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
3731: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 3732: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 3733: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
3734: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
3735: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 3736: <p>
1.247 jufi 3737: </ul>
1.239 jufi 3738:
1.235 lebel 3739: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3740: <ul>
1.235 lebel 3741:
1.239 jufi 3742:
1.247 jufi 3743: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 3744: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 3745: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
3746: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 3747: </strong></font><br>
3748: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
3749: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
3750: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
3751: <p>
1.301 jose 3752:
1.247 jufi 3753: </ul>
1.235 lebel 3754:
1.228 horacio 3755: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3756: <ul>
1.228 horacio 3757:
1.247 jufi 3758: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3759: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3760: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
3761: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 3762: </strong></font><br>
3763: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
3764: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
3765: <p>
3766:
1.247 jufi 3767: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 3768: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 3769: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
3770: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 3771: </strong></font><br>
3772: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
3773: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
3774: <p>
3775:
1.247 jufi 3776: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 3777: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 3778: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
3779: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 3780: </strong></font><br>
3781: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
3782: on the desktop of his parents.
3783: <p>
3784:
1.247 jufi 3785: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 3786: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 3787: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
3788: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 3789: </strong></font><br>
3790: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
3791: using IPFilter.
3792:
3793: <p>
3794:
1.247 jufi 3795: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 3796: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 3797: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
3798: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 3799: </strong></font><br>
3800: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
3801: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
3802: perspectives of the four OS.
3803: <br>
3804: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 3805: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 3806: <p>
3807:
1.247 jufi 3808: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 3809: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
3810: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 3811: software and security</a>,
3812: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 3813: </strong></font><br>
3814:
3815: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
3816: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
3817: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
3818: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
3819: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
3820: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
3821: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
3822: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
3823: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
3824: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
3825: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
3826: security conscious team beyond doubt.
3827: <p>
1.247 jufi 3828: </ul>
1.228 horacio 3829:
1.225 horacio 3830: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3831: <ul>
1.225 horacio 3832:
1.247 jufi 3833: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 3834: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
3835: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 3836: Interview</a>,
3837: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 3838: </strong></font><br>
3839:
3840: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
3841: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
3842: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 3843: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 3844: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
3845: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
3846: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
3847: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
3848: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 3849: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 3850: of choice.
3851: <p>
1.247 jufi 3852: </ul>
1.225 horacio 3853:
3854: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3855: <ul>
1.225 horacio 3856:
1.247 jufi 3857: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 3858: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 3859: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
3860: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 3861: </strong></font><br>
3862:
3863: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
3864: <p>
3865:
1.247 jufi 3866: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3867: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 3868: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
3869: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 3870: </strong></font><br>
3871:
3872: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
3873: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
3874: <p>
1.247 jufi 3875: </ul>
1.225 horacio 3876:
1.218 horacio 3877: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3878: <ul>
1.218 horacio 3879:
1.247 jufi 3880: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.387 mcbride 3881: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/6">
1.269 deraadt 3882: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1.392 david 3883: KernelTrap, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 3884: </strong></font><br>
3885:
3886: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
3887: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
3888: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
3889: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
3890: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
3891: subjects. Worth a read.
3892: <p>
3893:
3894:
1.247 jufi 3895: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 3896: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 3897: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
3898: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 3899: </strong></font><br>
3900:
3901: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
3902: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
3903: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
3904: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
3905: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
3906: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
3907: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
3908: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
3909: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 3910: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 3911: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
3912: on other operating systems.<br>
3913: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
3914: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
3915: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
3916: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
3917: <p>
3918:
1.247 jufi 3919: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3920: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 3921: Operating System 2010</a>,
3922: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 3923: </strong></font><br>
3924:
3925: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
3926: covering the level of software integration into the core
3927: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
3928: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
3929: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
3930: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
3931: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
3932: <p>
3933:
1.247 jufi 3934: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 3935: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 3936: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
3937: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 3938: </strong></font><br>
3939:
3940: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
3941: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
3942: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
3943: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
3944: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
3945: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
3946: <p>
1.247 jufi 3947: </ul>
1.221 horacio 3948:
1.210 jufi 3949: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3950: <ul>
1.215 horacio 3951:
1.247 jufi 3952: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3953: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 3954: Already a Contender</a>,
3955: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 3956: </strong></font><br>
3957:
3958: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
3959: source software in response to an article which claimed that
3960: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
3961: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
3962: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
3963: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
3964: <p>
3965:
1.247 jufi 3966: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 3967: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 3968: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
3969: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 3970: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3971:
1.224 horacio 3972: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
3973: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
3974: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
3975: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
3976: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
3977: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 3978: <p>
1.247 jufi 3979: </ul>
1.215 horacio 3980:
3981: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3982: <ul>
1.215 horacio 3983:
1.247 jufi 3984: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3985: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
3986: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 3987: Division</a>,
3988: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 3989: </strong></font><br>
3990:
3991: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
3992: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 3993: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 3994: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
3995: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
3996: investment</em>.<br>
3997: The implementation details can be seen on their
3998: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
3999: <p>
4000:
1.247 jufi 4001: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4002: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">
4003: [Spanish] HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
4004: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
4005: </strong></font><br>
4006:
4007: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
4008: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
4009: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
1.475 grunk 4010: laptops and T-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
1.301 jose 4011: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
4012: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
4013: A Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
4014: <p>
4015:
4016: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 4017: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 4018: Thinking about Security</a>,
4019: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 4020: </strong></font><br>
4021:
4022: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
4023: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
4024: security and says that even secured operating systems running
4025: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
4026: to time.<br>
4027: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
4028: system and just the most secure system.
4029: <p>
4030:
1.247 jufi 4031: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 4032: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 4033: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
4034: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 4035: </strong></font><br>
4036:
4037: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
4038: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
4039: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
4040: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
4041: choice:<br>
4042: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
4043: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
4044: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
4045: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
4046: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
4047: network security devices and as such must be well
4048: armored."</em><br>
4049: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
4050: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
4051: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
4052: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
4053: <br>
4054: Bravo!
4055: <p>
1.247 jufi 4056: </ul>
1.210 jufi 4057:
1.207 ian 4058: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4059: <ul>
1.215 horacio 4060:
1.247 jufi 4061: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 4062: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
4063: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
4064: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 4065:
1.207 ian 4066: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
4067: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 4068: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 4069: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
4070: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
4071: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 4072: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 4073: <p>
1.247 jufi 4074: </ul>
1.207 ian 4075:
1.194 jufi 4076: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4077: <ul>
1.194 jufi 4078:
1.247 jufi 4079: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4080: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 4081: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
4082: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 4083: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 4084:
1.240 miod 4085: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 4086: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
4087: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
4088: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
4089: <p>
4090:
1.247 jufi 4091: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4092: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">
4093: [Finnish] ITviikko - uutinen</a>,
4094: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
4095:
4096: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD,
4097: and thus IPF will be removed from OpenBSD.
4098: <p>
4099:
4100: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4101: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
4102: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
4103: June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
4104:
4105: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
4106: <p>
4107:
4108: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 4109: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 4110: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
4111: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
4112: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 4113:
1.240 miod 4114: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 4115: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 4116: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
4117: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
1.413 deraadt 4118: on the article he comments on the team's <em>license audit</em> through
1.206 ian 4119: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 4120: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
4121: <br>
1.413 deraadt 4122: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licencs has meant for the
1.201 horacio 4123: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
4124: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
4125: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
4126: <p>
4127:
1.247 jufi 4128: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 4129: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
4130: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 4131: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 4132: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 4133:
1.194 jufi 4134: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
4135: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
4136: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
4137: <br>
4138: The new
4139: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 4140: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 4141: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
4142: <p>
1.247 jufi 4143: </ul>
1.194 jufi 4144:
1.190 horacio 4145: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4146: <ul>
1.190 horacio 4147:
1.247 jufi 4148: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 4149:
4150: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
4151: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
4152:
1.301 jose 4153:
1.191 jufi 4154: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
4155: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
4156:
4157: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
4158: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
4159:
1.582 ! grunk 4160: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20010527142347">
1.212 horacio 4161: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 4162: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
4163:
1.211 horacio 4164: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
4165: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 4166: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
4167:
1.247 jufi 4168: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 4169: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
4170:
1.247 jufi 4171: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 4172: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
4173:
1.212 horacio 4174: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
4175: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 4176: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
4177:
4178: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
4179: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
4180:
4181: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
4182: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
4183:
1.301 jose 4184: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14"> [Swedish] Computer
4185: Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001<br>
4186:
1.191 jufi 4187: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
4188: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
4189:
4190: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 4191: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 4192:
1.192 jufi 4193: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
4194: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 4195: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 4196:
1.193 deraadt 4197: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
4198: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 4199: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 4200:
1.247 jufi 4201: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 4202: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
4203:
1.247 jufi 4204: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 4205: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
4206: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
4207:
1.213 horacio 4208: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 4209: OpenBSD gets brand-new packet filter</a> <em>(Slashdot echoes OpenBSD <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf&sektion=4">pf(4)</a> development.)</em>,
1.213 horacio 4210: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
4211:
1.190 horacio 4212: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 4213: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
4214: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
4215: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
4216: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
4217: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
4218: <p>
1.190 horacio 4219:
1.247 jufi 4220: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 4221: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
4222: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
4223: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 4224: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 4225:
1.195 jufi 4226: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 4227: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
4228: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
4229: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 4230: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
4231: <p>
4232:
1.247 jufi 4233: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 4234: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 4235: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
4236: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
4237: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 4238:
1.191 jufi 4239: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
1.301 jose 4240: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a>
4241: concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers (ISN), which could be used to hijack
4242: TCP connections of several OS's, but not so with OpenBSD.
4243: <p>
4244:
4245: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4246: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
4247: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
4248: May 3, 2001</strong></font><br>
4249:
4250: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
4251: being best of brand when it comes to security.
1.190 horacio 4252: <p>
1.247 jufi 4253: </ul>
1.190 horacio 4254:
1.191 jufi 4255:
1.186 jufi 4256: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4257: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 4258:
1.247 jufi 4259: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 4260: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 4261: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
4262: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 4263: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 4264:
1.188 jufi 4265: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 4266: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 4267: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 4268: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
4269: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 4270: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 4271: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 4272: <p>
4273:
1.301 jose 4274: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4275: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
4276: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
4277: April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
4278:
4279: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
4280: <p>
1.191 jufi 4281:
1.247 jufi 4282: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 4283: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
4284: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
1.466 deraadt 4285: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 5, 2001
1.191 jufi 4286: </strong></font><br>
4287:
4288: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
4289: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
4290: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
4291: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
4292: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
4293: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
4294: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
4295: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
4296: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
4297: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
4298: familiar?
4299: <p>
1.247 jufi 4300: </ul>
1.191 jufi 4301:
1.178 louis 4302: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4303: <ul>
1.178 louis 4304:
1.247 jufi 4305: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 4306: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 4307: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
4308: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 4309: </strong></font><br>
4310:
4311: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
4312: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
4313: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
4314: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
4315: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
4316: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
4317: <p>
4318:
1.247 jufi 4319: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4320: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
4321: Open source under the hood</a>,
4322: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 4323: </strong></font><br>
4324:
4325: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
4326: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
4327: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
4328: <p>
4329:
1.247 jufi 4330: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4331: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
4332: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
4333: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 4334: </strong></font><br>
4335:
4336: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
4337: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
4338: <p>
1.247 jufi 4339: </ul>
1.179 louis 4340:
1.174 louis 4341:
1.175 louis 4342: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4343: <ul>
1.175 louis 4344:
1.247 jufi 4345: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4346: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
4347: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
4348: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 4349: </strong></font><br>
4350:
4351: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
4352: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
4353: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
4354: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
4355: <p>
4356:
1.247 jufi 4357: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4358: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
4359: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
4360: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 4361: </strong></font><br>
4362:
4363: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 4364: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 4365: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
4366: <p>
1.247 jufi 4367: </ul>
1.175 louis 4368:
1.176 louis 4369:
1.172 mickey 4370: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4371: <ul>
1.172 mickey 4372:
1.247 jufi 4373: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4374: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
4375: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 4376: </strong></font><br>
4377:
4378: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
4379: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
4380: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 4381: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 4382: <p>
4383:
1.247 jufi 4384: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 4385: <a
1.269 deraadt 4386: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
4387: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
4388: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 4389: </strong></font><br>
4390:
4391: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
4392: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
4393: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
4394: <p>
4395:
1.247 jufi 4396: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 4397: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 4398: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
4399: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 4400: </strong></font><br>
4401:
4402: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
4403: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
4404: <p>
4405:
1.247 jufi 4406: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 4407: <a
1.269 deraadt 4408: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
4409: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 4410: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
4411: </strong></font><br>
4412:
4413: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
4414: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
4415: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
4416: our own Theo de Raadt.
4417: <p>
4418:
1.247 jufi 4419: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 4420: <a
1.269 deraadt 4421: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
4422: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
4423: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 4424: </strong></font><br>
4425:
4426: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
4427: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
4428: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
4429: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
4430: shut down.]
4431: <p>
4432:
1.247 jufi 4433: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4434: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 4435: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 4436: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
4437: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 4438: </strong></font><br>
4439:
4440: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
4441: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
4442: <p>
1.247 jufi 4443: </ul>
1.172 mickey 4444:
1.161 louis 4445: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4446: <ul>
1.161 louis 4447:
1.247 jufi 4448: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 4449: <a
1.269 deraadt 4450: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
4451: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
4452: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 4453: </strong></font><br>
4454:
4455: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
4456: by John Wolley
4457: <p>
4458:
1.247 jufi 4459: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 4460: <a
1.269 deraadt 4461: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
4462: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
4463: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 4464: </strong></font><br>
4465:
4466: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
4467: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
4468: OpenBSD).
4469: <p>
4470:
1.247 jufi 4471: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 4472: <a
1.247 jufi 4473: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 4474: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
4475: </strong></font><br>
4476:
4477: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
4478: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
4479: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
4480: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
4481: and hindsight.
4482: <p>
4483:
1.247 jufi 4484: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4485: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
4486: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
4487: </strong></font><br>
4488:
4489: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
4490: <p>
4491:
1.247 jufi 4492: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 4493: <a
1.168 provos 4494: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
4495: December 7, 2000
4496: </strong></font><br>
4497:
4498: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
4499: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
4500: us explain.
4501: <p>
4502:
1.247 jufi 4503: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 4504: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
4505: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 4506: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 4507: December 6, 2000
4508: </strong></font><br>
4509:
4510: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
4511: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
4512: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
4513: <p>
4514:
1.247 jufi 4515: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4516: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">
4517: [Japanese] Opinion: why I use OpenBSD</a>,
4518: MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
4519: </strong></font><br>
4520:
4521: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
4522: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
4523: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
4524: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
4525: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
4526: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
4527: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
4528: <p>
4529:
4530: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 4531: <a
1.226 horacio 4532: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
4533: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 4534: </strong></font><br>
4535:
4536: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 4537: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 4538: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 4539: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
4540: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
4541: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 4542: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 4543: <p>
1.162 millert 4544:
1.247 jufi 4545: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 4546: <a
1.161 louis 4547: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
4548: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
4549: </strong></font><br>
4550:
4551: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
4552: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
4553: <p>
4554:
1.247 jufi 4555: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 4556: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
4557: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
4558: </strong></font><br>
4559:
4560: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
4561: <p>
4562:
4563:
1.247 jufi 4564: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 4565: <a
1.226 horacio 4566: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
4567: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
4568: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 4569: </strong></font><br>
4570:
4571: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
4572: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
4573: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
4574: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
4575: <p>
1.247 jufi 4576: </ul>
1.169 louis 4577:
1.158 louis 4578: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4579: <ul>
1.147 louis 4580:
1.247 jufi 4581: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4582: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
4583: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 4584: </strong></font><br>
4585:
4586: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
4587: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
4588: <p>
4589:
1.247 jufi 4590: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4591: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
4592: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
4593: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 4594: </strong></font><br>
4595: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
4596: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
4597: <p>
4598:
1.247 jufi 4599: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 4600: <a
4601: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
4602: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
4603: </strong></font><br>
4604:
4605: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
4606: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
4607: <p>
4608:
1.247 jufi 4609: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4610: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 4611: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
4612: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 4613:
1.213 horacio 4614: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.383 jcs 4615: <a href="books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
1.161 louis 4616: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
4617: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
4618: <p>
1.215 horacio 4619:
1.247 jufi 4620: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 4621: <a
4622: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
4623: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
4624: </strong></font><br>
4625:
4626: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
4627: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
4628: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
4629: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
4630: much of the attitude too).
4631: <p>
1.161 louis 4632:
1.247 jufi 4633: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4634: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 4635: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 4636: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 4637:
1.157 louis 4638: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
4639: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
4640: <p>
1.247 jufi 4641: </ul>
1.157 louis 4642:
4643: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4644: <ul>
1.157 louis 4645:
1.247 jufi 4646: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4647: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 4648: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 4649: </strong></font><br>
4650:
4651: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
4652: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
4653: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
4654: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
4655: <p>
4656:
1.247 jufi 4657: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 4658: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
4659: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
4660: </strong></font><br>
4661:
4662: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
4663: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
4664: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
4665: it because they love coding...
4666: <p>
4667:
1.247 jufi 4668: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 4669: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
4670: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
4671: </strong></font><br>
4672:
4673: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
4674: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
4675: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
4676: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
4677: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
4678: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
4679: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
4680: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
4681: <p>
4682:
1.247 jufi 4683: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4684: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
4685: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
4686: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 4687: </strong></font><br>
4688:
4689: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
4690: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
4691: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
4692: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
4693: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
4694: the pizza.
4695: <p>
4696:
1.247 jufi 4697: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 4698: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
4699: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
4700: </strong></font><br>
4701:
4702: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
4703: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
4704: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
4705: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
4706: problems.
4707: <p>
4708:
1.247 jufi 4709: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.568 ian 4710: <a href="https://osuny.co.uk/txt/zines/napalm/issue7.txt">Using IPSEC and Samba
4711: to integrate Windows Networks</a>, Napalm, October 6, 2000
1.154 louis 4712: </strong></font><br>
4713:
1.222 miod 4714: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 4715: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
4716: - whether they like it or not.
4717: <p>
4718:
1.247 jufi 4719: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4720: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
4721: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 4722: </strong></font><br>
4723:
4724: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
4725: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
4726: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 4727: <p>
1.148 aaron 4728:
1.247 jufi 4729: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4730: <a href="http://www.networkmagazine.com/article/NMG20001003S0001/1">The Pros and Cons of Posting Vulnerabilities</a>, Network Magazine, October 5, 2000
1.156 louis 4731: </strong></font><br>
4732:
4733: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
4734: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
4735: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
4736: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
4737: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
4738: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
4739: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
4740: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
4741: <p>
4742:
1.247 jufi 4743: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4744: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
4745: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 4746: </strong></font><br>
4747:
4748: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
4749: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
1.413 deraadt 4750: BSDs. Mostly he summarizes the history and quotes the various project
1.147 louis 4751: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
4752: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
4753: <p>
1.247 jufi 4754: </ul>
1.147 louis 4755:
1.138 louis 4756: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4757: <ul>
1.138 louis 4758:
1.247 jufi 4759: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4760: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
4761: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
4762: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
4763: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 4764: </strong></font><br>
4765:
1.227 horacio 4766: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 4767: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
4768: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
4769: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
4770: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
4771: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
4772: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
4773: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 4774: <p>
4775:
1.247 jufi 4776: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 4777: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 4778: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 4779: </strong></font><br>
4780:
4781: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
4782: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
4783: groups, and even Linux.
4784: <p>
4785:
1.247 jufi 4786: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4787: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
4788: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 4789: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
4790: </strong></font><br>
4791:
4792: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
4793: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
4794: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
4795: library after installing the OS.
4796: <p>
4797:
1.247 jufi 4798: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4799: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 4800: Sys Admin, September 2000
4801: </strong></font><br>
4802:
4803: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
4804: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
4805: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
4806: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 4807: (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=vpn&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">vpn(8)</a>,
4808: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
4809: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
4810: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=isakmpd&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">isakmpd(8)</a>) and the OpenBSD
1.189 horacio 4811: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 4812: out of the system.
4813: <p>
4814:
1.247 jufi 4815: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 4816: <a href="http://www.osOpinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD, OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, September 2000
4817: </strong></font><br>
4818:
4819: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.413 deraadt 4820: in terms of usability and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
1.200 niklas 4821: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
4822: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
4823: the IP filtering and address translation.
4824: <p>
1.301 jose 4825:
4826: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4827: [German] Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
4828: </strong></font><br>
4829:
4830: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
4831: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
4832: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
4833: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
4834: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
4835: <p>
1.247 jufi 4836: </ul>
1.200 niklas 4837:
1.131 louis 4838: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4839: <ul>
1.131 louis 4840:
1.247 jufi 4841: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4842: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
4843: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
4844: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 4845: </strong></font><br>
4846:
4847: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
4848: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
4849: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
4850: <p>
4851:
1.247 jufi 4852: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 4853: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
4854: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
4855: </strong></font><br>
4856:
4857: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
4858: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
4859: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
4860: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
4861: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
4862: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
4863: note of"</i>.
4864: <p>
4865:
1.247 jufi 4866: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 4867: <a
1.247 jufi 4868: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 4869: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
4870: </strong></font><br>
4871:
4872: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
4873: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
4874: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
4875: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
4876: <p>
4877:
1.247 jufi 4878: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 4879: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 4880: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
4881: </strong></font><br>
4882:
4883: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
4884: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
4885: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
4886: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
4887: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
4888: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
4889: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
4890: <p>
4891:
1.247 jufi 4892: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 4893: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
4894: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
4895: 2000
4896: </strong></font><br>
4897:
4898: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
4899: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
4900: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
4901: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
4902: against current industry practices.
4903: <p>
4904:
1.247 jufi 4905: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 4906: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/08/OpenBSD.html">An Overview of OpenBSD Security</a>, OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 8, 2000
4907: </strong></font><br>
4908:
4909: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
4910: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
4911: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
4912: <p>
4913:
1.247 jufi 4914: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 4915: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
4916: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
4917: </strong></font><br>
4918:
4919: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
4920: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
4921: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
4922: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
4923: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
4924: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
4925: careful code reviews, he concludes.
4926: <p>
4927:
1.247 jufi 4928: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 4929: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
4930: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
4931: </strong></font><br>
4932:
4933: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
4934: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
4935: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
4936: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
4937: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 4938: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
4939: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
4940: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 4941: <p>
1.247 jufi 4942: </ul>
1.131 louis 4943:
1.118 louis 4944: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4945: <ul>
1.118 louis 4946:
1.247 jufi 4947: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 4948: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
4949: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
4950: </strong></font><br>
4951:
4952: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
4953: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
4954: about time. The article mentions that
4955: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
4956: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
4957: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 4958: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 4959: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
4960: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 4961: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 4962: <p>
4963:
1.247 jufi 4964: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 4965: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 4966: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 4967: </strong></font><br>
4968:
4969: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
4970: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
4971: of OpenSSH.
4972: <p>
4973:
1.247 jufi 4974: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4975: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 4976: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 4977: </strong></font><br>
4978:
4979: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 4980: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 4981: bridging.
4982: <p>
4983:
1.247 jufi 4984: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 4985: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
4986: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 4987: </strong></font><br>
4988:
1.121 deraadt 4989: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
4990: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 4991: <p>
4992:
1.247 jufi 4993: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 4994: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
4995: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
4996: </strong></font><br>
4997:
4998: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
4999: <p>
5000:
1.247 jufi 5001: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 5002: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 5003: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
5004: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 5005: </strong></font><br>
5006:
1.120 deraadt 5007: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
5008: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 5009: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
5010: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
5011: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
5012: <p>
5013:
1.247 jufi 5014: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 5015: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
5016: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
5017: </strong></font><br>
5018:
1.222 miod 5019: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 5020: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
5021: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
5022: protocols and their quirks.
5023: <p>
5024:
1.247 jufi 5025: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 5026: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
5027: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 5028: </strong></font><br>
5029:
5030: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
5031: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
5032: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 5033: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 5034: <p>
5035:
1.247 jufi 5036: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 5037: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
5038: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
5039: </strong></font><br>
5040:
5041: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
5042: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
5043: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
5044: <p>
5045:
1.247 jufi 5046: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 5047: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 5048: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
5049: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 5050: </strong></font><br>
5051:
5052: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
5053: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
5054: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
5055: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
5056: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
5057: <p>
1.247 jufi 5058: </ul>
1.118 louis 5059:
1.104 louis 5060: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5061: <ul>
1.104 louis 5062:
1.247 jufi 5063: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 5064: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
5065: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
5066: </strong></font><br>
5067:
5068: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
5069: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
5070: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
5071: be a bit dry.
5072: <p>
5073:
1.247 jufi 5074: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 5075: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
5076: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
5077: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
5078: </strong></font><br>
5079: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
5080: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
5081: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
5082: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
5083: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
5084: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
5085: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
5086: <p>
5087:
1.247 jufi 5088: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 5089: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
5090: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 5091: 2000
1.128 louis 5092: </strong></font><br>
5093:
5094: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
5095: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
5096: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
5097: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
5098: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 5099: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 5100: <p>
5101:
1.247 jufi 5102: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5103: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
5104: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 5105: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 5106:
5107: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
5108: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
5109: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
5110: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 5111: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
5112: <p>
1.110 louis 5113:
1.247 jufi 5114: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 5115: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
5116: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
5117: </strong></font><br>
5118:
5119: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
5120: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
5121: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
5122: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
5123: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
5124: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
5125: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
5126: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
5127: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
5128: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
5129: <p>
5130:
1.247 jufi 5131: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 5132: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 5133: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 5134:
5135: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
5136: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 5137: <p>
1.108 louis 5138:
1.247 jufi 5139: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 5140: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
5141: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 5142: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 5143:
5144: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
5145: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
5146: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 5147: <p>
1.106 louis 5148:
1.247 jufi 5149: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 5150: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
5151: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 5152: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 5153:
5154: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
5155: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
5156: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
5157: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 5158: <p>
1.107 louis 5159:
1.247 jufi 5160: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 5161: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
5162: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 5163: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 5164:
5165: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
5166: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 5167: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 5168: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
5169: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 5170: <p>
1.105 louis 5171:
1.247 jufi 5172: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 5173: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 5174: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 5175: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 5176:
1.113 naddy 5177: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
5178: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 5179: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 5180: <p>
1.104 louis 5181:
1.247 jufi 5182: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 5183: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
5184: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
5185: </strong></font><br>
5186:
5187: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
5188: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
5189: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
5190: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
5191: <p>
1.301 jose 5192:
5193: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5194: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
1.577 tobias 5195: [Swedish] Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>,
1.301 jose 5196: No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
5197:
5198: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
5199: hardware-supported cryptography.
5200: <p>
1.247 jufi 5201: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 5202:
1.85 louis 5203: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5204: <ul>
1.85 louis 5205:
1.247 jufi 5206: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5207: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 5208: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 5209: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 5210:
5211: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
5212: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
5213: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
5214: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
5215: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
5216: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
5217: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 5218: <p>
1.99 louis 5219:
1.247 jufi 5220: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5221: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 5222: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 5223: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 5224:
5225: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
5226: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
5227: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
5228: conditions.
1.113 naddy 5229: <p>
1.100 louis 5230:
1.247 jufi 5231: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5232: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 5233: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 5234: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 5235:
5236: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
5237: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
5238: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
5239: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 5240: <p>
1.95 louis 5241:
1.247 jufi 5242: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5243: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 5244: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 5245: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 5246:
5247: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
5248: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 5249: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 5250: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
5251: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5252: <p>
1.92 louis 5253:
1.247 jufi 5254: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5255: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 5256: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 5257: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 5258:
5259: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
5260: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
5261: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
5262: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
5263: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
5264: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 5265: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 5266: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 5267: <p>
1.91 louis 5268:
1.247 jufi 5269: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5270: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
5271: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 5272: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 5273:
5274: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
5275: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
5276: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
5277: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
5278: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
5279: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
5280: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
5281: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
5282: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 5283: <p>
1.90 louis 5284:
1.247 jufi 5285: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 5286: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
5287: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
5288: </strong></font><br>
5289: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
5290: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
5291: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
5292: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
5293: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
5294: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
5295: <p>
5296:
1.247 jufi 5297: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 5298: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
5299: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 5300: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 5301:
1.113 naddy 5302: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
5303: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 5304: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
5305: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
5306: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
5307: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
5308: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 5309: <p>
1.87 louis 5310:
1.247 jufi 5311: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 5312: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
5313: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 5314: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 5315:
5316: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 5317: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 5318: <p>
1.85 louis 5319:
1.247 jufi 5320: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 5321: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
5322: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
5323: May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
5324:
5325: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
5326: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
5327: <p>
5328:
5329: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 5330: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
5331: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 5332: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 5333:
5334: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.577 tobias 5335: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 5336: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
5337: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 5338: <p>
1.89 louis 5339:
1.247 jufi 5340: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5341: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
1.85 louis 5342: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 5343: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 5344:
5345: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
5346: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
5347: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
5348: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
5349: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 5350: </ul>
1.85 louis 5351:
1.78 deraadt 5352: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5353: <ul>
1.74 louis 5354:
1.247 jufi 5355: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5356: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 5357: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 5358: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 5359: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 5360:
5361: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
5362: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
5363: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5364: <p>
1.83 louis 5365:
1.247 jufi 5366: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 5367: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
5368: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 5369: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 5370:
5371: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
5372: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 5373: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 5374: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
5375: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 5376: <p>
1.93 louis 5377:
1.247 jufi 5378: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 5379: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
5380: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
5381: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 5382: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 5383:
1.83 louis 5384: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
5385: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
5386: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
5387: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
5388: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 5389: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
5390: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
5391: <p>
1.82 aaron 5392:
1.247 jufi 5393: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5394: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 5395: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 5396: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 5397:
1.83 louis 5398: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
5399: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
5400: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 5401: <p>
1.80 louis 5402:
1.247 jufi 5403: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5404: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 5405: Bad Press</a>,
5406: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 5407: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 5408:
5409: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 5410: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 5411: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
5412: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
5413: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 5414: <p>
1.247 jufi 5415: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 5416:
5417: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5418: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 5419:
1.247 jufi 5420: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5421: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
5422: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 5423: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 5424: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 5425:
5426: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
5427: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
5428: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
5429: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 5430: <p>
1.74 louis 5431:
1.247 jufi 5432: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 5433: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
5434: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 5435: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 5436:
1.219 horacio 5437: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
5438: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
5439: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
5440: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
5441: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
5442: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
5443: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 5444: <p>
1.88 louis 5445:
1.247 jufi 5446: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 5447: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 5448: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 5449: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 5450:
5451: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
5452: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
5453: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
5454: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 5455: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 5456: <p>
1.81 louis 5457:
1.247 jufi 5458: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5459: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 5460: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 5461: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 5462:
5463: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
5464: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
5465: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
5466: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
5467: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
5468: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
5469: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 5470: <p>
1.90 louis 5471:
1.247 jufi 5472: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5473: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 5474: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 5475: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 5476:
5477: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
5478: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
5479: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 5480: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 5481: <p>
1.247 jufi 5482: </ul>
1.71 louis 5483:
1.69 deraadt 5484: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5485: <ul>
1.70 louis 5486:
1.247 jufi 5487: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5488: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
5489: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 5490: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 5491:
5492: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
5493: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
5494: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 5495: <p>
1.70 louis 5496:
1.247 jufi 5497: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5498: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
5499: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 5500: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 5501:
5502: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 5503: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 5504: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 5505: <p>
1.68 louis 5506:
1.247 jufi 5507: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5508: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
5509: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 5510: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 5511: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 5512:
1.111 jufi 5513: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
5514: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 5515: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 5516: "secure by default" installation.
5517: <p>
1.64 louis 5518:
1.247 jufi 5519: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 5520: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 5521: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 5522: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 5523:
1.113 naddy 5524: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 5525: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 5526: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 5527: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
5528: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
5529: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 5530: <p>
1.66 louis 5531:
1.247 jufi 5532: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5533: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 5534: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 5535: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 5536:
5537: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 5538: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 5539: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
5540: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
5541: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 5542: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
5543: <p>
1.83 louis 5544:
1.247 jufi 5545: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5546: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 5547: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 5548: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 5549:
5550: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 5551: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
5552: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 5553: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
5554: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 5555: <p>
1.64 louis 5556:
1.247 jufi 5557: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5558: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 5559: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 5560: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 5561:
5562: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
5563: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 5564: <p>
1.301 jose 5565:
5566: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5567: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">
5568: [German] Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>,
5569: Bundesministerium des Innern, Februar 2000
5570: </strong></font><br>
5571:
5572: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
5573: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
5574: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
5575: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
5576: Giving way to
5577: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
5578: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
5579: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
5580: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
5581: <p>
1.247 jufi 5582: </ul>
1.65 louis 5583:
1.69 deraadt 5584: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5585: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5586:
1.247 jufi 5587: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5588: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 5589: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 5590: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 5591:
5592: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
5593: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
5594: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
5595: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 5596: <p>
1.88 louis 5597:
1.247 jufi 5598: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5599: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/enterprise/stories/linux/news/0,6423,2426206,00.html">Opening up, government style</a>, ZDNet, January 24, 2000
1.113 naddy 5600: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 5601:
5602: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 5603: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
5604: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 5605: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
5606: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 5607: <p>
1.60 louis 5608:
1.247 jufi 5609: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 5610: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1.377 david 5611: <a href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 5612: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 5613: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5614:
5615: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
5616: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
5617: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 5618: <p>
1.58 louis 5619:
1.247 jufi 5620: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 5621: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 5622: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 5623:
5624: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
5625: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 5626: <p>
1.53 louis 5627:
1.247 jufi 5628: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 5629: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
5630: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 5631: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 5632:
5633: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
5634: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
5635: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 5636: <p>
1.99 louis 5637:
1.247 jufi 5638: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 5639: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 5640: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5641:
5642: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
5643: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 5644: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 5645: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 5646: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 5647:
1.247 jufi 5648: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 5649: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
5650: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 5651: </strong></font><br>
5652:
5653: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
5654: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
5655: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
5656: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
5657: <p>
5658:
1.247 jufi 5659: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5660: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 5661: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 5662: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5663:
5664: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
5665: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 5666: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 5667:
1.247 jufi 5668: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 5669: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 5670: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 5671:
5672: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 5673: in
1.247 jufi 5674: <a href="http://www.canadacomputes.com/cc/section/pub/1,1100,33,00.html?pub=1&iss=52">The Computer Paper</a>.
1.53 louis 5675: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 5676: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 5677: <p>
1.53 louis 5678:
1.247 jufi 5679: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5680: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 5681: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
5682: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 5683: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 5684:
1.58 louis 5685: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5686: <p>
1.301 jose 5687:
5688: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5689: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">
5690: [Polish] OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
5691: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis
5692: Informacyjny, January 2000
5693: </strong></font><br>
5694:
5695: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
5696: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
5697: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
5698: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
5699: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
5700: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
5701: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
5702: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
5703: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
5704: with the translation. For the full text, see the
1.383 jcs 5705: <a href="mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org mail archives</a>. Interpretation
5706: errors are mine --louis</i>
1.301 jose 5707: <p>
5708:
5709: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5710: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
5711: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
5712: </strong></font><br>
5713:
5714: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
5715: <p>
5716: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 5717:
1.69 deraadt 5718: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5719: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5720:
1.247 jufi 5721: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 5722: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
5723: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
5724: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 5725: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5726:
1.58 louis 5727: Kurt Seifried
5728: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
5729: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
5730: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 5731: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 5732:
1.247 jufi 5733: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5734: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 5735: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 5736: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 5737:
5738: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 5739: <p>
1.96 louis 5740:
1.247 jufi 5741: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 5742: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
5743: [German] OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>,
5744: heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
5745: </strong></font><br>
5746:
5747: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
5748: <p>
5749:
5750: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5751: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 5752: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 5753: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 5754:
5755: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
5756: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
1.383 jcs 5757: <a href="smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
1.86 louis 5758: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 5759: <p>
1.247 jufi 5760: </ul>
1.86 louis 5761:
1.69 deraadt 5762: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5763: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5764:
1.247 jufi 5765: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 5766: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
5767: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 5768: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 5769:
5770: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
5771: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 5772: <p>
1.61 louis 5773:
1.247 jufi 5774: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5775: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 5776: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
5777: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5778: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 5779:
5780: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 5781: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 5782: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
5783: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 5784: right -- or at least strives to".
5785: <p>
1.48 louis 5786:
1.247 jufi 5787: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 5788: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
5789: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5790: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 5791: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
5792: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
5793: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
5794: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 5795: <p>
1.61 louis 5796:
1.247 jufi 5797: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://slashdot.org/interviews/99/11/04/1716225.shtml">UK Royal Family webmaster prefers OpenBSD</a>,
1.48 louis 5798: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 5799: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 5800:
5801: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
5802: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
5803: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
5804: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 5805: <p>
1.46 louis 5806:
1.247 jufi 5807: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 5808: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
5809: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 5810: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5811:
5812: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
5813: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 5814: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 5815:
1.247 jufi 5816: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 5817: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
5818: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 5819: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 5820:
5821: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
5822: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
5823: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
5824: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 5825: <p>
1.247 jufi 5826: </ul>
1.70 louis 5827:
1.69 deraadt 5828: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5829: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5830:
1.247 jufi 5831: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5832: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
5833: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 5834: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 5835: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 5836:
5837: Kurt Seifried
5838: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
5839: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
5840: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 5841: <p>
1.44 philen 5842:
1.247 jufi 5843: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/10/22/1157259&mode=thread">Interview with The Cult of the Dead Cow</a>,
1.41 louis 5844: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 5845: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 5846:
5847: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 5848: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 5849:
1.247 jufi 5850: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.lwn.net/1999/1014/security.phtml">The existence of OpenSSH-1.0 has been confirmed</a>,
1.37 louis 5851: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 5852: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 5853:
5854: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 5855: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 5856:
1.247 jufi 5857: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www10.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/10/biztech/articles/11code.html">Easing on Software Exports Has Limits</a>,
1.36 louis 5858: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 5859: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 5860:
5861: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
5862: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
5863: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
5864: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 5865: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 5866:
1.247 jufi 5867: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.netsec.net/press_100699.html">NSTI announces commercial support services for OpenBSD</a>,
1.34 beck 5868: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 5869: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 5870:
1.36 louis 5871: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 5872: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 5873:
1.247 jufi 5874: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5875: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
1.39 louis 5876: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 5877: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 5878:
5879: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 5880: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 5881: </ul>
1.38 louis 5882:
1.69 deraadt 5883: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5884: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5885:
1.247 jufi 5886: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/technology/stories/990930/2929913.html">Calgarian heads team ensuring OpenBSD security</a>,
1.38 louis 5887: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 5888: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 5889:
5890: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
5891: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 5892: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 5893:
1.113 naddy 5894: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 5895: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 5896: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 5897: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 5898:
5899: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
5900: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 5901: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
5902: terminal:
1.113 naddy 5903: <blockquote>
5904: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
5905: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
5906: <br>
5907: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
5908: </code>
5909: </blockquote>
5910: <p>
5911:
1.247 jufi 5912: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.340 jose 5913: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?/features/990927hack.htm">Hack this! Microsoft and its critics dispute software-security issues, but users make the final call</a>, InfoWorld, Sept. 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.247 jufi 5914: <p>
5915:
5916: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5917: <a href="http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/28/ms.security.idg/index.html">Microsoft: Bad security, or bad press?</a>, CNN, Sept. 28, 1999
1.113 naddy 5918: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 5919:
5920: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
5921: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 5922: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 5923: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 5924:
1.247 jufi 5925: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 5926: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">[Japanese] BSD Magazine</a>,
5927: Sept. 28, 1999
5928: </strong></font><br>
5929:
5930: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
5931: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
5932: translating and reprinting articles from
5933: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
5934: <p>
5935:
5936: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 5937: <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/ctg183.htm">Open source has roots in the Net</a>, USA Today, Sept. 20, 1999
1.113 naddy 5938: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 5939:
5940: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
5941: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
5942: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
5943: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
5944: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 5945: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 5946: <p>
1.19 louis 5947:
1.113 naddy 5948: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 5949: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 5950: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 5951:
5952: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
5953: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
5954: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 5955: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
5956: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 5957: <p>
1.16 louis 5958:
1.247 jufi 5959: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5960: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 5961: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 5962: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 5963:
1.57 louis 5964: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
5965: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
5966: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 5967: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 5968:
1.247 jufi 5969: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5970: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.466 deraadt 5971: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5972: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5973:
1.113 naddy 5974: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 5975:
1.247 jufi 5976: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 5977: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
5978: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 5979: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 5980:
1.23 louis 5981: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
5982: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
5983: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
5984: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
5985: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 5986: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 5987:
1.247 jufi 5988: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 5989: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
5990: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 5991: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 5992:
1.199 pvalchev 5993: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 5994: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
5995: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
5996: installation.
1.113 naddy 5997: <p>
1.47 louis 5998:
1.247 jufi 5999: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 6000: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 6001: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 6002: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 6003:
1.301 jose 6004: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a
6005: href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>, an India-based alternative OS news
6006: and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 6007: </ul>
1.57 louis 6008:
1.69 deraadt 6009: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 6010: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6011:
1.247 jufi 6012: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 6013: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 6014: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 6015: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 6016:
6017: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
6018: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 6019: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 6020: <p>
1.12 louis 6021:
1.247 jufi 6022: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 6023: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 6024: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 6025: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 6026:
6027: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
6028: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 6029: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
6030: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
6031: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
6032: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
6033: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 6034: <p>
1.247 jufi 6035: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 6036:
1.69 deraadt 6037: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 6038: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 6039:
1.247 jufi 6040: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 6041: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 6042: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 6043:
6044: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
6045: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
6046: available."
1.113 naddy 6047: <p>
1.301 jose 6048:
6049: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
6050: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
6051: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
6052: </strong></font><br>
6053:
6054: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
6055: <p>
1.247 jufi 6056: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 6057:
1.69 deraadt 6058: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 6059: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6060:
1.247 jufi 6061: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 6062: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 6063: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 6064:
6065: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
6066: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
6067: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
6068: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
6069: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 6070: <p>
1.33 louis 6071:
1.247 jufi 6072: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 6073: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 6074: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 6075: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 6076:
1.113 naddy 6077: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
6078: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 6079: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
6080: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
6081: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 6082: <p>
1.247 jufi 6083: </ul>
1.57 louis 6084:
1.69 deraadt 6085: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 6086: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6087:
1.247 jufi 6088: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
6089: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 6090: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 6091: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 6092:
6093: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
6094: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 6095: <p>
1.69 deraadt 6096:
1.247 jufi 6097: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 6098: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
6099: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
6100: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 6101: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 6102:
6103: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 6104: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 6105:
1.247 jufi 6106: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 6107: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 6108:
1.113 naddy 6109: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 6110:
1.247 jufi 6111: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 6112: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
1.68 louis 6113: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 6114: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 6115:
6116: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 6117: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 6118: </ul>
1.23 louis 6119:
1.69 deraadt 6120: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 6121: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6122:
1.247 jufi 6123: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.365 jose 6124: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/1999/0300/bsd.html">
1.113 naddy 6125: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 6126:
6127: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
6128: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 6129: <p>
1.2 deraadt 6130:
1.247 jufi 6131: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 6132: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.340 jose 6133: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, InfoWorld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 6134: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 6135:
6136: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
6137: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 6138: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 6139: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 6140: </ul>
1.57 louis 6141:
1.69 deraadt 6142: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 6143: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6144:
1.247 jufi 6145: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 6146: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
1.15 louis 6147: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 6148: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 6149:
6150: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
6151: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
6152: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
6153: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 6154: <p>
1.15 louis 6155:
1.247 jufi 6156: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 6157: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
6158: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 6159: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 6160:
6161: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
6162: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
6163: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
6164: columns."
1.113 naddy 6165: <p>
1.247 jufi 6166: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 6167:
1.69 deraadt 6168: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 6169: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6170:
1.247 jufi 6171: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 6172: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 6173: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 6174: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 6175:
6176: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 6177: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 6178:
1.113 naddy 6179: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 6180: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 6181: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 6182:
6183: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
6184: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 6185: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 6186: </ul>
1.57 louis 6187:
1.69 deraadt 6188: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 6189: <ul>
1.301 jose 6190: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
6191: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
6192: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
6193: Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
6194:
6195: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
6196: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
6197: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
6198: <p>
6199:
6200: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
6201: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
6202: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
6203: Nov 13, 1998 and
6204: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
6205: Datateknik</a>,
6206: Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
6207:
1.380 saad 6208: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in Mac OS X. The first
1.301 jose 6209: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
6210: explains the licensing issues and points to our
6211: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
6212: <p>
1.69 deraadt 6213:
1.113 naddy 6214: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 6215: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 6216: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 6217: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 6218:
1.222 miod 6219: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 6220: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
6221: Implementation, including a brief interview with
6222: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 6223: <p>
1.247 jufi 6224: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 6225:
1.69 deraadt 6226: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 6227: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6228:
1.247 jufi 6229: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 6230: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 6231: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 6232:
1.69 deraadt 6233: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
6234: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 6235: <p>
1.247 jufi 6236: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 6237:
1.69 deraadt 6238: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 6239: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 6240:
1.247 jufi 6241: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 6242: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
6243: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 6244: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 6245:
1.383 jcs 6246: Points at our <a href="security.html">security page</a>
1.1 deraadt 6247: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 6248: <p>
1.1 deraadt 6249:
1.247 jufi 6250: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 6251: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 6252: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
6253: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 6254: <p>
1.247 jufi 6255: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 6256:
1.69 deraadt 6257: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 6258: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6259:
1.247 jufi 6260: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 6261: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.377 david 6262: WebServer Online</a>, reprinted in
6263: <a href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 6264: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 6265: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 6266:
6267: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
6268: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
6269: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.308 jose 6270: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 6271: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 6272: <p>
1.247 jufi 6273: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 6274:
6275: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 6276: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6277:
1.247 jufi 6278: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 6279: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 6280: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 6281:
1.69 deraadt 6282: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
6283: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 6284: <p>
1.112 naddy 6285:
1.247 jufi 6286: </ul>
1.113 naddy 6287: <p>
1.1 deraadt 6288:
1.292 camield 6289: <hr>
1.216 horacio 6290: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 6291: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
1.582 ! grunk 6292: <br><small>$OpenBSD: press.html,v 1.581 2008/05/01 20:36:45 ian Exp $</small>
1.1 deraadt 6293:
6294: </body>
6295: </html>